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CarlShulman's avatar

Yes, academic credentials, particularly more difficult and relevant ones, are much stronger evidence than these minor factors, and have fewer harmful effects.

That's why one doesn't need to postulate exotic hypotheticals to imagine using them to eke out tiny bits of incremental validity at the expense of serious equity problems.

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dmytryl's avatar

I specifically mentioned a hypothetical "absurdly mission-critical application," i.e. one in which one needed to maximize the accuracy of your predictions at the expense of other considerationThis is fairly amusing. I take it as you totally aren't neglecting all of the much more significant factors, such as academic credentials and the like, in your absurdly mission-critical application?

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