Disparate impact
Disparate Impact: Legal And Political
Legally, “disparate impact” is a term of art coined in Griggs vs Duke Power, 1971, in which, as I said a while back, '“The message of Griggs and “disparate impact” theory: if minorities fail tests at a higher rate than whites, it’s the test that’s wrong.”'
Dangerously incompetent fire fighters, weakened by gender quotas, dumbed by racial quota nonsense
De Blasio`s $100 Million Handout In Disparate Impact FDNY Case
Read the article for examples of the firefighting questions.
In reality, the test could be passed one of two ways: being smart enough to comprehend technical firefighting passages or by studying firefighting techniques ahead of time.
But, that`s discriminatory to the tune of a hundred million clams.
Disparate Impact Data–Where White College Basketball Players Come From
Disparate Impact in Business v. Academia
One of the conundrums of American law is that cognitively-demanding tests that are legally frowned upon due to disparate impact in hiring and promotion are perfectly A-OK in the university classroom … even when they are the exact same test. ...
The long term effect of Griggs`s >Disparate Impact theory is explained well in The Bell Curve: It pushes the evaluation process required for hiring back from the employer to the university. It exacerbates the tendency toward credentialism in American life.
