Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO of Pymetrics, contrasts traditional career guidance tools like Myers-Briggs with Pymetrics' neuroscience-based approach.
“The most commonly used instrument is the Myers-Briggs and it is almost a century old at this point. It's 80 years old.”
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AssertionNot checkable as stated
Between 30% and 50% of first-year hires fail
“30 to 50% of first year hires fail.”
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AssertionNot checkable as stated
Neuroscience games lack inherent gender or ethnic bias
“Unlike some of the other data that people are using to predict fit in people, the games were generally, are generally not thought to have any inherent gender or ethnic bias, so they're not picking up on that if the training sample is biased.”
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Opinion
Resumes and questionnaires are subjective, low-density hiring tools
“Both of these are low density and also subjective.”
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Insight
Candidate models require a broad baseline contrast group
“What we're saying is, no, you really need to collect a baseline that is representative of the people that you're, you know, trying to select from and use that as your contrast group.”
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Insight
High-density objective data yields superior prediction of human outcomes
“And so what we just, what we learned in our, you know, 10 years at Harvard and MIT doing brain imaging is that if you collect better, more objective, more high density data on people, you can actually do a better job Of predicting research outcomes.”
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AssertionSupported
Nonverbal neuroscience games avoid cultural biases found in questionnaires
“And we assess 90 different cognitive, emotional, and personality traits, and again, these are all nonverbal, ah, games, so they're not culturally anchored the way, you know, questionnaires or other things might be.”
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