If you’re hiring, you’re probably better off not doing interviews.
My own experience strongly suggests to me that this claim is inane—and is highly dangerous advice… My personal experience from interviewing many, many candidates for a large company suggests that interviewing is crucial (though I will freely grant that different kinds of interviews vary wildly in their effectiveness).
The whole point of this article is that experts often think themselves better than SPR’s when actually they perform no better than SPRs on average. Here we have an expert telling us that he thinks he would perform better than an SPR. Why should we be interested?
Because I didn’t just state a blanket opinion. I dug into the studies, looked for data to test one of them in depth, and found it to be highly flawed. I called into question the methodology employed by the studies, as well as overgeneralizing and overreaching conclusions they’re drummed up to support. The evidence that at least some studies are flawed and the methodology is shoddy should make you question the universal claim ”… actually they perform no better than SPRs on average”. That’s why you should be interested.
My personal experience with interviewing is certainly not as important piece of evidence against the article as the specific criticisms of the studies. It’s just another anecdotal data point. That’s why I didn’t expand on it as much as I did on the wine study, although I do believe it can be made more convincing through further elucidation.
The whole point of this article is that experts often think themselves better than SPR’s when actually they perform no better than SPRs on average. Here we have an expert telling us that he thinks he would perform better than an SPR. Why should we be interested?
Because I didn’t just state a blanket opinion. I dug into the studies, looked for data to test one of them in depth, and found it to be highly flawed. I called into question the methodology employed by the studies, as well as overgeneralizing and overreaching conclusions they’re drummed up to support. The evidence that at least some studies are flawed and the methodology is shoddy should make you question the universal claim ”… actually they perform no better than SPRs on average”. That’s why you should be interested.
My personal experience with interviewing is certainly not as important piece of evidence against the article as the specific criticisms of the studies. It’s just another anecdotal data point. That’s why I didn’t expand on it as much as I did on the wine study, although I do believe it can be made more convincing through further elucidation.