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Politics : CONSPIRACY THEORIES
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To: sea_urchin who wrote (208)9/13/2005 8:13:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 418
 
Re: the job should be given to someone who can do it, and do it well -- on whatever objective criteria exist to measure or estimate performance. If that means an exam or aptitude test then so be it. And the person who does best has proven his worth for the job, promotion, whatever.

As I said, your dreamy notion of "merit" exists only on paper... The criterion of "the person who does it best" will be all right to sort out among rocket scientists or computer engineers or Chinese-Portuguese translators but it won't cut it for most blue- and white-collar jobs where, say, 100 applicants are equally qualified to fill a given job --it's at that point that other --irrational-- criteria are used to short-list the pool of applicants...
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