Wiggleton-Little, Jada and Callender, Craig (2022) Screening Out Neurodiversity. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Adults with autism suffer from an alarmingly high and increasing unemployment rate. Many companies use pre-employment personality screening tests. These filters likely have disparate impact upon the neurodiverse population, exacerbating this societal problem. This situation puts us in a bind. On the one hand, the tests disproportionately harm a vulnerable group in society. On the other, employers have a right to use personality traits in their decisions and think that personality test scores are predictors of job performance. It is difficult to say whether this negative disparate impact is a case of wrongful discrimination. Nevertheless, focusing on the tests, we’ll show that pre-employment personality tests prey in an unjust way on several features associated with autism. We end by suggesting the contours of some regulation that we deem necessary.
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| Keywords: | neurodiversity autism unemployment personality personality tests | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Science and Policy |
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| Depositing User: | Craig Callender | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2022 13:43 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 13:43 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 21292 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Science and Policy |
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| Date: | 20 October 2022 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21292 |
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