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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (102133)1/27/2009 6:20:57 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 543056
 
<develop a test to find people>

When all one has is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

What you describe is exactly what IBM did. I don't know if they still do it. Making everyone wear suits and pass IQ tests didn't make employees great, but it ensures employees have intelligence. They also had a brutal top-down management interview process that many people felt was just intimidation to see who wimped out. Intelligence alone clearly isn't enough

Common sense, moderate risk taking, social skills, etc. all go along way. Some might even say intuitive smarts are the most important part, which are particularly hard to measure. So, while IQ is possibly important, I really doubt that IQ alone makes someone successful. You need many kinds of people - finding reasonably smart people that can interface with and motivate not-so-smart people is absolutely required, but actually not very a common skill.

The kind of objectivity I was talking about was retrospective evaluations of results achieved. That's the only measure of a person - their deeds and accomplishments, which rarely show up on a qualifying exam. Unless someone is dumb as dirt, the IQ part probably can't be used for anything more than a what software geeks use to call a "clip filter", like the bar at the amusement park's roller coaster.
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