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Subject:Experience vs. education From:geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA Date:Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:20:51 -0500
If I had to choose between a potential new employee with
experience and one with education, I'd choose the one with
ability. (Did anyone say "Kobyashi Maru"?) Experience and
education are both _indirect_ indicators of how good
someone is _likely_ to be, but neither one provides a
_direct_ measure of good performance. So now we raise the
ugly spectre of how to test ability. Glad I'm <gdr'ing> for
the weekend...
--Geoff Hart @8^{)} geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.
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