Restoring the civil-service exam would bring fairer selection and a more competent workforce
By Charles Murray. Excerpts:
"the testing component is a joke. About 25% of government job applicants take no test at all. The other 75% take the USA Hire Standard Assessment, which assesses a variety of cognitive skills. Applicants take the test online wherever they prefer and use their own unmonitored devices."
"With many candidates to choose from, no feasible enforcement mechanism can prevent hiring officials from choosing applicants they prefer because of their politics, sex, ethnicity or any other personal reason"
"84% of civil servants who donated to the 2024 presidential campaign donated to Kamala Harris, and 99% of political donations by the Servi, which represents federal workers, support Democrats"
"If the federal government could administer proctored tests in the 1950s, it can do so now."
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