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Aug 2, 2023Liked by Marcel Dumas Gautreau

>What sorts of janitors would you expect to be hired at a university working on twenty-year old cell samples? Probably one that can follow instructions written in English, right?

A janitor that won't get you a disparate impact lawsuit.

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A superb thread. Away from countries and back at the US, this is why the US Army argued successfully in favor of intelligence tests: the costs of failure associated with the very unintelligent was too high for the force to bear.

And that was at a time when Group C was largely non-existent in the US.

God help us now.

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Nice post, thanks for writing it

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Lost me at 'THEY are the sort of PERSON...' Ugh ugh ugh... I'm sure this is well-intended, but reading things like this cause me visceral discomfort over and over again.

If you don't want to appear to specify the sex of the janitor, could you please just say something like 'People who do this are the sorts of people who...'?

Thank you.

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