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philwelchyesterday at 11:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

> The other big problem is Obama changed the hiring test from testing intelligence to testing personality in a bid to increase diversity. There was a lawsuit over this.

It was even worse than that. What they actually did was write up a phony “personality test” and distribute the answer key to applicants who were members of preferred racial organizations.

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa...


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Aloisiustoday at 4:33 AM

In the actual OIG report, it seemed the person who gave "answers" to the test didn't actually have the behavioral test or the answer key.

He stated he stressed things like answering questions like an air traffic control "and we’re alpha personalities, we’re dominating, we don’t take no for an answer." He also mentions that he got calls, from multiple people, saying they failed the behavioral test.

So it seems that while he did coach answers, they weren't the literal test answers, but rather advice one could have gotten from public sources with enough research or presumably, talking to some FAA air traffic controllers.

In the end, the report stated the findings in the investigation did not warrant a referral to a federal prosecutor.

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chillingeffecttoday at 1:22 AM

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