Cylusthevirus

You mean the Ottoman Empire? Is that supposed to be the same entity? I have no fuckin’ clue anymore.

Oh it’s not, dead, it’s just changed shape so we don’t immediately recognize it. This, for example, is an ad for about 5 different games.

Notice how the brands were mentioned. Notice how much more palatable this is as a delivery system for that sweet brand awareness. They’re making statements we agree with! They’re demonstrating values that align with our own.

Now look it’s video games so I really don’t mind. This is certainly nicer than what we had in the 90s and 2000s (which were occasionally hilarious but I digress) , but I still want to raise awareness a bit. Larian isn’t the only company that rolls this way. Thing is, they’re probably not even lying, but an executive at a company does media like this for a reason.

This is them “speaking to you.”

I mean Trump in gen pop in a prison is a gang war waiting to happen.

The cool thing about it is that the core of it is really just one page.

There’s a page in there with a list of types of tests and their respective r values, which is a number between zero and one that explains how well a given type of test predicts job performance based on this gigantic meta analysis the researchers ran. Zero means there’s no relationship between the test and job performance and one means the test predicts job performance perfectly.

Generally you want something better than .3 for high stakes things like jobs. Education and experience sits at … .11 or so. It’s pretty bad. By contrast, skills tests do really well. Depending on the type they can go over .4. That’s a pretty big benefit if you’re hiring lots of people.

That said it can be very hard to convince people that “just having a conversation with someone” isn’t all that predictive at scale. Industry calls that an “unstructured interview” and they’re terrible vectors for unconscious or conscious bias. “Hey, you went to the same school as me…” and now that person is viewed favorably.

Seriously this stuff is WELL STUDIED but for some reason the MBA lizards never care. It’s maddening.

How do you write this article and not once reference I/O Psychology or the literature that examines how well various tests predict job performance? (e.g. Schmidt and Hunter, 1998)

I swear this isn’t witchcraft. You just analyze the job, determine the knowledge and skills that are important, required at entry, and can’t be obtained in a 15 minute orientation, and then hire based on those things. It takes a few hours worth of meetings. I’ve done it dozens of times.

But really what all that boils down to is get someone knowledgeable about the role and have them write any questions and design the exercises. Don’t let some dingleberry MBA ask people how to move Mt. Fuji or whatever dumb trendy thing they’re teaching in business school these days.

What are you using your life for?

This is where you start asking yourself if you’re really a good person after all.

All it takes to get people to cheer on suicide via self-immolation is doing it for the right cause, I guess. Gross.

How about suicide? Less fond of that one.

So there’s definitely a Zionist wing of the party. What’s gonna happen when they come into contact with the Nazi wing of the party?

That’s a referral to a series of specialists and probably an MRI or two at minimum. Cancer is a deeply shitty way to die, go talk to your doctor ASAP.

In Cyberpunk 2077, Judy’s icon is a ghost popping out of a clamshell. There’s two jokes in there.

What a strange way to tell us that your sense of ideological purity is worth more than people’s actual lives.

Looking forward to I Died to Preventable Diseases Due to Lack of Healthcare Access and Reincarnated in Another World.

I think people wanting stuff is pretty much endemic to people, whatever economic system happens to be in place.

Like 10 seconds away from her in First Contact and he’s down there with a Tommy Gun blazing away.

They all say they work well under pressure after all.

If only more billionaires tried to visit the Titanic.