I get the stress tolerant part although I don't agree that this would imply a low ability to perceive, synthesise and abstract. Why would the people that pass such an interview be herd mentality thinkers?
Because the ability to perceive is tuned by the reactivity of your nervous system. Think of it like the sensitivity on a microphone. A normal microphone might work well to record a conversation at a party. But it wont capture the beating of a fly's wings. And conversely a high sensitivity microphone will be useless at a party, it will just get blown out by the noise.
In the same way the minds of people are tuned to different levels of stimulation. People with low sensitivity are better suited to noisy information rich environments. People with high sensitivity work better in quieter less information dense ones. You might want a highly sensitive person to conduct a one on one interview, because they can better pickup the subtleties of the interaction. But you don't want that for a lawyer who has to work in a busy courtroom.
That covers perception. The synthesis comes both from the lower perception floor and from the tendency for those things that are perceived to perpetuate within the nervous system. A reactive nervous system carries waves upon its surface more readily. It reacts even to itself more strongly. The inter-neuron gain is higher. Consequently a highly sensitive nervous system (i.e. introversion) is associated with withdrawal from high stimulation environments and the perception and processing of subtlety.
The herd mentality comes from being less able to pick up the subtleties that let you know the group think is not an accurate picture of reality. If you cannot perceive the discrepancies then you cannot doubt the status quo.
So when you do public whiteboard interviews you are selecting for low sensitivity individuals who are on average less able to discern subtle patterns in perceptions coming in at low volume. Does that sound like the kind of person who excels at coding?
Although it might sound like someone who can work the least sub optimally in a noisy open office.
In the same way the minds of people are tuned to different levels of stimulation. People with low sensitivity are better suited to noisy information rich environments. People with high sensitivity work better in quieter less information dense ones. You might want a highly sensitive person to conduct a one on one interview, because they can better pickup the subtleties of the interaction. But you don't want that for a lawyer who has to work in a busy courtroom.
That covers perception. The synthesis comes both from the lower perception floor and from the tendency for those things that are perceived to perpetuate within the nervous system. A reactive nervous system carries waves upon its surface more readily. It reacts even to itself more strongly. The inter-neuron gain is higher. Consequently a highly sensitive nervous system (i.e. introversion) is associated with withdrawal from high stimulation environments and the perception and processing of subtlety.
The herd mentality comes from being less able to pick up the subtleties that let you know the group think is not an accurate picture of reality. If you cannot perceive the discrepancies then you cannot doubt the status quo.
So when you do public whiteboard interviews you are selecting for low sensitivity individuals who are on average less able to discern subtle patterns in perceptions coming in at low volume. Does that sound like the kind of person who excels at coding?
Although it might sound like someone who can work the least sub optimally in a noisy open office.