[jernfrost]

I don't see the problem. That researchers haven't done a perfect study in every possible way is hardly the issue here, but rather the blind trust in our ability to interview and hire people. This research paper does not come out of the blue. This is something that has been observed by many organizations and people for quite some time, that interviews are broken.

In fact there is an awful lot of wrong stuff society keeps doing despite evidence over many year suggesting it is stupid. The stupidity of high CEO salaries e.g. has been proven quite well, yet business keeps a blind faith in it. Getting employees in complicated jobs to perform by rewarding them on extremely narrow metric has also proven itself counterproductive yet the MBA crowd refuse to believe it doesn't work.

Business practices often seem to be more like religion than founded on reality. It is a GOOD thing that some researchers are trying to do their bit to correct this flawed picture.