Posted on 04/06/2019 2:40:06 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
At a meeting of the African American Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Jim Kenney had his “I can see Russia from my house” moment.
In a room full of Black business owners, contractors, and city employees, Kenney told us what white men in power have said forever — except this time, he had his very own twist. ---SNIP---
“We have a hard time hiring Black people for these jobs because they’re so super-talented and too overqualified that they choose to run after the private sector instead. They don’t want to take the pay cut.”
(Excerpt) Read more at phillymag.com ...
“The threshold I.Q. level for a diagnosis of mental retardation has been progressively lowered over the years, in part because of awareness of the damaging social prejudice suffered by those labeled “retarded.” In 1959, the American Association on Mental Deficiency set 85 as the I.Q. below which a person was considered to be retarded.In 1992, the renamed American Association on Mental Retardation lowered the mental retardation “ceiling” to an I.Q. of 70-75,but many mental health specialists argue that people with I.Q.s of up to 80 may also have mental retardation. Flexibility in the I.Q. standard is important because tests given at different times may show slight variations due to differences in the tests and because of testing error — the standard error measurement on I.Q. tests is generally three to five points.”
https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ustat/ustat0301-01.htm
ALL of your candidates are too awesome. That’s a new one.
To your second point -
There is no such thing as “overqualified” for a job. Either you meet the parameters established (and hopefully exceed them) or you do not. This “overqualified” thing only comes up in the minds of the prospective employer, who is afraid that once the “overqualified” candidate is hired, it shall be only a short while until the “overqualified” person moves on to a higher and better-paying position that provides more job satisfaction.
If the employer cannot provide the better pay, sometimes providing more in the form of job satisfaction is enough to retain the very good employee. Or the employer could offer more pay, based on current performance. The job market is much more competitive now than it was at one time in the very recent past.
Jobs that go unfilled due to administrative limitations on “targeted” hiring are a double burden on the whole employment picture. There ARE many potential candidates that are not considered because the “qualifications” are drawn much too narrowly, and having to do with factors that have no relevance to the task to be performed.
Meritocracy has its virtues.
They know he is lying, but they don’t care about the truth, only the narrative.
If they were ‘over-qualified’ we would not need affirmative actions.
Sarah Palin never said it. And what she did say is true.
Back President Trump’s effort to make certain the census form contains the citizenship question in it and no reference to race. But to the country of where the respondent is a citizen of if not an American citizen.
TIME TO END HYPHENATING AMERICANS
One thing the Mexican Constitution has that we should consider doing.Mexico has no hyphenated Mexicans. They prohibit any reference to race when they conduct a census or issue any means of identification, Where a photo id is not available physical description is needed skin color yes but not by race but by nationality..
By doing this Mexico has avoided “balkanizing”, creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority. Plus it could play a significant part in shutting down the political playing off racial divisions between Americans by the Democrats.
d.By doing this Mexico has avoided “balkanizing”, creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority. Plus it could play a significant part in shutting the political playing off racial divisions down.
I lost two tires to a Kenneyhole two days ago.
It’s typically black “supremacists” who capitalize “Black”. The types that write for The Root, Thy Black Man and suchlike.
One of my wife's co-workers (police dispatcher) is taking a position with the city just south. Now, it's a search for a candidate that can pass all the background and drug tests and has the aptitude to become a dispatcher in 15 weeks. The washout rate is pretty high.
It never fails, doesn’t it? To this day stupid liberals are still bringing up that mis-quote.
In the context of what was known during my college years, the IQ test had a +/-5% repeatability over the lifetime of an individual.
In the current time, there is some evidence that "neural plasticity" can be trained and improved. The BrainHQ program has demonstrated success.
Working on the assumption that the ability to perform a given job has a minimum IQ floor, the higher that threshold, the fewer candidates you will have to fill the position. When you overlay the IQ spread of populations, it explains the number persons from that group that are capable of meeting the minimum. Just because a certain group represents X% of the general population is not a valid reason why that group has the same X% of candidates meeting the IQ minimum to do that job. That might be achieved if the pool of candidates is much greater than the available number of position i.e. 20 positions and 5,000 applicants.
As a retired Officer’s wife they do and some people excel in training as recruits and pass.I have been to many a ceremony.My fav is when #3 son graduated and we had lot’s of little girl grandchildren and they were doing cheers as the guys did their dirlls for the families.So cute.
“There is no such thing as “overqualified” for a job.”
Really? Suppose you need someone to cut meat in a butcher shop and a surgeon applied? I’m just curious.
AGREED; most people regardless of color, look to their pay before the people.
The only people who WANT to go into public service are those who HUNGER FOR POWER over their fellow citizen.
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