Examines the legitimacy of concern with the disproportionate distribution of false negatives and positives in job screening through imperfectly predictive tests. Argues that false negatives should pose problems for meritocrats concerned with individual over group rights, and that result-oriented quotas must be differentiated from screening with…

Supports and defends the work of the National Research Council's Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB). Argues that, through validity generalization, the distinction between referral and hiring, and the establishment of a "performance-fair" system of score adjustments, the GATB can be used to effect equitable employment…