| > I believe where that started was after Griggs v. Duke Power, where pre-employment tests were found to discriminate against African Americans. That is not what was found that case. What was found was that any hiring criteria which had an unequal racial impact and was not sufficiently demonstrably tied to actual job performance was illegal racially discriminatory. It neither extended to all pre-employment testing nor limited itself to pre-employment testing. > These tests were effectively banned No, they weren't. Pre-employment IQ testing is still used. > What happened after that, was that the "testing" was legally sent to the colleges and universities for them to vet. Blaming that on Griggs v. Duke Power is especially rich because one of the hiring filters which was found to be illegal discrimination as applied by Duke Power in that case, because it was not demonstrably tied to job performance, was a diploma requirement. Now, if you want to blame this on some kind of popular mythology about the legality of pre-employment IQ testing, based on a misperception of Griggs v. Duke Power, okay, fine. But that's a different story than the actual legality. |