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- From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: nkill
- Message-ID: <74339@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:36:44 GMT
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- martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
-
- >In article <74245@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
-
- > I don't know how many more points someone gets for being a member of a
- > minority group, but I question whether someone with a 95 score is "more
- > qualified" than someone with a 90 score. That small a spread could be
- > affected by anything.
-
- > If my argument is correct, that means the two candidates are equally
- > qualified.
-
- >it is the precise numerical score that matters in most civil
- >service and like exams (like promotion exams in Fire Departments and
- >Police Departments.) There is *no* freedom to take someone with an 89
- >before someone with a 90.
-
- I realize this, but my point is that the small boost given to the minority
- candidate does not cause a *less qualified* candidate to be hired. It
- merely makes it a tad more likely that, given two equivalently qualified
- candidates, the one who is a member of a minority group will be hired.
-
- --
- Stef "The force of gravity on the moon is a fraction of
- stef@apple.com the gravity on the earth, so the moon would not be
- able to attract the pen to inself. Rather, it would
- only be able to suspend the pen."
- --The Pen Is Mightier Than the Moon Hall of Fame
-