Re: Testing job applicants

[mww@merant.com (Michael Wojcik)]

[Followups redirected to a.f.c, which might arguably be in the vicinity
of on-topic, unlike c.a.e or c.s.a2.]

In article <hshubs-1009992337400001@user-33qscuh.dialup.mindspring.com>, hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard S Shubs) writes:
> In article <dek9r7.sd01.ln@predator>, hmv@port.ac.uk (Mike Meredith at
> home) wrote:
> 
> >Don't go round insulting those who have achieved good exam
> >results recently (I'm not one of them) without better evidence for 
> >falling standards.
> 
> I've encountered some of these kids.  He's right.

Ah, yes.  Anecdote as proof.  Perhaps standards *are* falling.

(Howard: The proposition "some of these kids don't know anything"
does not imply the proposition "all of these kids don't know
anything" unless you also assume the proposition "all of these
kids are identical in the category 'knowing'".  That's a pretty
stupid assumption.)


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AAI Development, MERANT                 (block capitals are a company mandate)
Department of English, Miami University

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