But colleges use SAT scores in admittance and don’t get frequently sued.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. Like the academia, the U.S. armed forces also use what are de facto IQ tests in recruiting, but it doesn’t mean that private employers would be allowed to do it. This whole field of law is a complex muddle that takes experts to navigate safely, with legal standards based on vague phrases that can be twisted to reach almost any desired conclusion in any particular case if one is so inclined. (How would you objectively determine what counts as “demonstrably a reasonable measure of job performance,” and what doesn’t?) In such a situation, it’s not surprising that high-status institutions can get away with much more than others.
James_Miller:
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. Like the academia, the U.S. armed forces also use what are de facto IQ tests in recruiting, but it doesn’t mean that private employers would be allowed to do it. This whole field of law is a complex muddle that takes experts to navigate safely, with legal standards based on vague phrases that can be twisted to reach almost any desired conclusion in any particular case if one is so inclined. (How would you objectively determine what counts as “demonstrably a reasonable measure of job performance,” and what doesn’t?) In such a situation, it’s not surprising that high-status institutions can get away with much more than others.