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I agree with SCOTUS firefighter decision (liberal obama voter)
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Date: June 30th, 2009 5:41 AM Author: titillating parlor mood The result is correct--the use of employment testing should be encouraged despite the disparate impact.
(I was not excited about Obama, however--I'm a big fan of Dean, and I was in favor of Edwards in the primary) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:39 PM Author: Translucent House Dopamine Who the hell is a big fan of Dean?? LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124221) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 1:58 AM Author: titillating parlor mood Dean was and still is awesome. He's basically right on all of the important issues, far more than Obama ever will be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12130506) |
Date: June 30th, 2009 7:15 AM Author: chestnut headpube I'm not convinced a long multiple choice test is the best way to select firefighters for leader positions, but of course it's blatantly unfair to go back and just scrap the results because they turn out to not be PC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12122316) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 8:06 AM Author: outnumbered regret This
New Haven should have accepted the results of the test and tried to create a better test next go around |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 8:21 AM Author: Frum ticket booth wagecucks Did you read about all the stuff they did to make the test fair? There is no way to "fix" the test except to dumb it down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12122340) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 8:24 AM Author: outnumbered regret I didn't read it, but why have a multiple choice test at all? Can't the managers observe performance, interview the guys, and figure out who should be promoted like in most other workplaces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12122344) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 8:28 AM Author: Frum ticket booth wagecucks I'm not sure how I feel about this. I do like that this sort of testing is somewhat objective and insures that the fire fighters know the regulations when promoted. On the other hand, what you said is also true. It could work like any other job.! The thing I am not ok with is moving away from testing just to promote more blacks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12122346) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 8:30 AM Author: Laughsome Nursing Home Prole part of the point is to have an objective component rather than making it wholly subjective, contingent upon favoritism, etc. you just have a threshold test of objectivity, then you can promote within that based on performance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12122347) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 12:12 PM Author: fuchsia talented hairy legs site I think they want an objective test in part to guard against allegations of racism and other favoritism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12123664) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:22 PM Author: racy locale A lot of police and fire departments use object measures to protect against politicking to the top. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124090) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 1:59 AM Author: titillating parlor mood Sounds like a really good reason to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12130511) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 12:15 PM Author: Bearded hell Yeah, I agree with this. Although I suspect that while a multiple choice test isn't ideal, it could be helpful if used in combination with some other factors. Ideally you'd want someone who both knew their stuff, had a history of good performance and who was respected by the people they'd be supervising. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12123670) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:06 PM Author: Erotic bawdyhouse "I'm not convinced a long multiple choice test is the best way to select firefighters for leader positions"
That was only part of the evaluation. |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:08 PM Author: chestnut headpube it counted 60%, which seems too much (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124014) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:11 PM Author: Azure Abnormal Pit Elastic Band wadr, what is your experience as a firefighter? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124028) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:15 PM Author: chestnut headpube none of course. I would suck as a firefighter, and even more as a leader of firefighters, but I'm sure I could ace that multiple choice test with a couple of days of study. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124049) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:29 PM Author: 180 haunting menage Why does everyone presume that multiple choice tests are a poor way to weed out firefighters for leadership positions? Those in such positions need to be able to make command decisions based on complicated matters such as structural dynamics and combustion principles. Those are the most important qualities--knowing how to fight a fire that's engulfing a building when lives are at stake. The "soft" leadership factors are probably less important than the things one needs to study for hours on end to comprehend and apply in real life situations.
I'm not an expert, but I'm puzzled by the presumption that multiple choice tests are suboptimal for such positions. Is it because everyone envisions firefighters as dudes with hoses who occasionally help cats out of trees? |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:38 PM Author: Azure Abnormal Pit Elastic Band Subject: your last sentence you mean dudes with hoses that help pussies? yeah, that's pretty sexual (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124217) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:41 PM Author: chestnut headpube speaking for myself, it's because I imagine firefighting is more a practical skill than something that can be learned theoretically. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124235) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:52 PM Author: 180 haunting menage Do you understand, though, the difference between practical firefighting skills, which every firefighter develops, and leadership skills, which includes telling the firefighters what to do, where to go, what side of the building to enter, etc, based on their understanding of where the building will crumble? That's very difficult to test in any other way than on a written/multiple choice test. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124335) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:54 PM Author: Anal foreskin gaping I don't see this as a major concern. All the people taking the test are already firefighters able to perform their duties. It's impossible for someone to come in and take the test without being able to work as a fire fighter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124360) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 1:59 AM Author: titillating parlor mood Agreed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12130518) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 12:00 PM Author: titillating parlor mood In fact, we need more employment testing. If it weeds out the dumb blacks, that's ok--instead, we'll have more efficient hiring and promotion decisions. See http://www.centerforcollegeaffordability.org/uploads/Griggs_vs_Duke_Power.pdf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12123618) |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:24 PM Author: deranged avocado school weed whacker To be fair,
The Griggs lower court got it right. |
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Date: June 30th, 2009 1:16 PM Author: Misanthropic Famous Landscape Painting Casino I disagree with Ricci for not doing enough to abolish AA> (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12124051) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 2:07 AM Author: Brass Beta National Pistol LOL at Ginsburg declaring the test "flawed." I recall when I was a young teenager. Having read the Bell Curve, and being a naive believer in the beauty of racial equality, I was surprised to find convincing evidence that whites are smarter than blacks. I read some "rebuttals" to the Bell Curve. Uniformly, they declared the Bell Curve tests "flawed," but I found the reasoning unsound. Every test that shows whites are much smarter than blacks on average is flawed, according to these so-called scientists, regardless of whether the tests control for nutrition, socioeconomic factors, schooling, what have you. the tests are flawed because they reach the racist result. and we must ignore the fact that blacks all over the globe are unsuccessful, and they've always been unsuccessful, because history too yields a racist result. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12130591) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 2:11 AM Author: titillating parlor mood Yep. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12130623) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 2:12 AM Author: Anal foreskin gaping great post man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1030589&forum_id=2#12130629) |