Tests’ revival

Adrian Furnham

A chapter in Head & Heart Management, 2008, pp 194-196 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The fortunes of psychometrics go up and down in both the academic and the “real” world. There are periods when the critics seem to have sway, arguing that the jury is back. They report that tests are, at their best, very weak predictors of anything useful at work. At worst they are expensive, fakeable and unreliable. They discriminate against certain groups of people, who can be litigiously minded. One can easily be biased on all the sorts of “isms”: ageism, racism, sexism. They give the gloss, but do not deliver the benefits of science. They are pushed by avaricious consultants, test publishers and old dons on the make.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230598317_74

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