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		bigtech on July 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar Could you illuminate 'but only about at the 0.5 level' this a bit?

wanderingmarker on July 20, 2012 [–]

I was wondering about this as well. Is this a correlation number, and should I translate it as "the best tests give no better than a coin flip of selecting a good candidate"?

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