Parallel Parking and Disparate Impact
1st May 2009
Steve Sailer thinks about these things so that you don’t have to.
As a society, we don’t benefit when people wash out of expensive training programs for predictable reasons.
So, why wouldn’t a trucking firm at least consider a parallel parking test for job applicants?
Well, how about “disparate impact?” What if a legally protected demographic group such as, say, women turned out to pass the parallel parking test at less than four-fifths rate of the highest scoring demographic group?
(And, indeed, I suspect that most of you don’t.)