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Jim Pinkham asked:
> I have to wonder what this writing test is measuring.
It likely resulted from someone's desire to be "objective"
in evaluating writers. It's a lot easier to grade a few
100-word samples than to compare stacks of docs that the
various candidates may not even have written. A true-false
test could have provided an even starker appearance of
objectivity.
I feel that tests are pretty much useless until they
have been tested. I wonder how they knew what to look for
in the candidates' responses to the test? Perhaps they
have criteria that select out those that cannot write.
Perhaps, though, they toss out those who would have been
the best qualified. But wait, the HR department already
does that when they ask that candidates have at three
years' experience with Vista! Only liars pass through
that filter.
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