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		willhinsa on Oct 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lambda School leaked documents show poor performan... Because we as a society decided that IQ testing job applicants was illegal, we created the behemoth that is our student loan crisis. Fun times.

lmm on Oct 26, 2021 [–]

I'm sympathetic to that kind of view, but it's not quite as simple as that. It's legal to ask job applicants for their SAT scores (which are directly comparable to IQ tests), but most employers don't.

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