{"id":66347,"date":"2015-03-25T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66347"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T19:56:50","slug":"the-atlantic-haunted-by-the-past-a-criminal-record-shouldnt-ruin-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66347","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic: Haunted by the Past: A Criminal Record Shouldn&#8217;t Ruin a Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t an employer want to know if a potential employee is a criminal? Who&#8217;s to say this information is irrelevant? <\/p>\n<p>An IQ test is an excellent proxy for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/law.jrank.org\/pages\/1365\/Intelligence-Crime-Explaining-IQ-crime-correlation.html\">likelihood<\/a> to engage in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statistical_correlations_of_criminal_behaviour\">criminal<\/a> <A HREF=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?q=IQ+and+crime+correlation&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=0&#038;as_vis=1&#038;oi=scholart&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=g_kSVZSeJpDqoAS534DwBA&#038;ved=0CBsQgQMwAA\">behavior<\/a>. Higher IQ people are more likely to see the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amren.com\/ar\/2009\/02\/index.html\">consequences<\/a> of their actions and they are more likely to feel <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0160289611000900\">empathy<\/a> for others (requires abstract thought) and to see the future more clearly. Unfortunately, employers cannot give IQ tests to potential employees.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/03\/haunted-by-the-past-a-criminal-record-shouldnt-ruin-a-career\/388138\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>: &#8220;Too many applicants, particularly people of color, are being denied jobs based on background checks that are irrelevant or even inaccurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t an employer want to know if a potential employee is a criminal? Who&#8217;s to say this information is irrelevant? An IQ test is an excellent proxy for likelihood to engage in criminal behavior. Higher IQ people are more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,29582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-iq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66355,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66347\/revisions\/66355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}