Is there any utilitarian cost to some capable people giving up because they believe rightly that their accomplishments will be discounted?
Well, this depends on the exact circumstances, but this may happen to the people who got unlucky on the test anyway, and using a better predictor decreases the number of people who get mischaracterized.
A typo, I meant VNM Utilitarianism.
Well, this depends on the exact circumstances, but this may happen to the people who got unlucky on the test anyway, and using a better predictor decreases the number of people who get mischaracterized.