Comment Re:It's a PR agency playing pseudo-scientist (Score 1) 191
Thanks Toby.
About the synthetic validity, a universal system to predict people, the patent is pending for that, and it will take about another three years to build the database to make it a commercial product. If you take a look my CV, you will see I did get my doctorate from University of Minnesota, ranked worldwide as one of the top Universities for psychology (it was number one when I got accepted, but dropped to number three when I left - not my fault). I have devised several new statistical analyses, including a nifty new Bayesian technique for variance estimation.
Also, synthetic validity isn't that hard to understand, though our University media department did spin it a bit with that "Rambo" reference. You are simply using job analysis information to predict validity coefficients (i.e., correlations between performance and predictors). My work on weighted least squares multiple regression really provided the key to making this work. Consequently, once you describe the job, you know who to hire.
Sincerely,
Piers Steel
About the synthetic validity, a universal system to predict people, the patent is pending for that, and it will take about another three years to build the database to make it a commercial product. If you take a look my CV, you will see I did get my doctorate from University of Minnesota, ranked worldwide as one of the top Universities for psychology (it was number one when I got accepted, but dropped to number three when I left - not my fault). I have devised several new statistical analyses, including a nifty new Bayesian technique for variance estimation.
Also, synthetic validity isn't that hard to understand, though our University media department did spin it a bit with that "Rambo" reference. You are simply using job analysis information to predict validity coefficients (i.e., correlations between performance and predictors). My work on weighted least squares multiple regression really provided the key to making this work. Consequently, once you describe the job, you know who to hire.
Sincerely,
Piers Steel
