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Briefly: Psychologists’ organization weighs in on Ricci case

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychologists filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Ricci v. DeStefano case that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear April 22. In the case, one Hispanic and 19 white firefighters have sued the city for throwing out the results of a promotion exam because minority firefighters did poorly on the exam. The Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychologists supports the city’s argument that the test, which was created by hired consultants, was seriously flawed because the test’s content was not properly created and the score weighting was arbitrary....

#1 By J M. 10:52a.m. on April 20, 2009

See the important article by Steve Sailer on this case:

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/090419_ricci.htm

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