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===[http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-legal-and-political Disparate Impact: Legal And Political]===
Legally, “disparate impact” is a term of art coined in [http://supreme.justia.com/us/401/424/index.html Griggs vs Duke Power], 1971, in which, as I [http://www.vdare.com/posts/derbyshire-on-will-the-united-states-survive/ said a while back], ''''“The message of Griggs and “disparate impact” theory: if minorities fail tests at a higher rate than whites, it’s the [http://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/math_test_improper_for_police.html test] that’s wrong.”''''

[http://www.vdare.com/posts/de-blasios-100-million-handout-in-disparate-impact-fdny-case De Blasio`s $100 Million Handout In Disparate Impact FDNY Case]

Read the article for examples of the firefighting questions.

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In reality, the test could be passed one of two ways: being smart enough to comprehend technical firefighting passages or by studying firefighting techniques ahead of time.

But, that`s discriminatory to the tune of a hundred million clams.
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[http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-data-where-white-college-basketball-players-come-from Disparate Impact Data–Where White College Basketball Players Come From]

[http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-in-business-v-academia Disparate Impact in Business v. Academia]

One of the conundrums of American law is that cognitively-demanding tests that are legally frowned upon due to disparate impact in hiring and promotion are perfectly A-OK in the university classroom … even when they are the exact same test. ...

The long term effect of Griggs`s [http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-legal-and-political/ >Disparate Impact theory] is explained well in [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Avdare.com+The+Bell+Curve%3A+&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= The Bell Curve:] It pushes the evaluation process required for hiring back from the employer to the university. It exacerbates the tendency toward credentialism in American life.

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	The long term effect of Griggs`s [http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-legal-and-political/ >Disparate Impact theory] is explained well in [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Avdare.com+The+Bell+Curve%3A+&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= The Bell Curve:] It pushes the evaluation process required for hiring back from the employer to the university. It exacerbates the tendency toward credentialism in American life.		The long term effect of Griggs`s [http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-legal-and-political/ >Disparate Impact theory] is explained well in [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Avdare.com+The+Bell+Curve%3A+&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= The Bell Curve:] It pushes the evaluation process required for hiring back from the employer to the university. It exacerbates the tendency toward credentialism in American life.
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 ===[http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-legal-and-political  Disparate Impact: Legal And Political]===
 Legally, “disparate impact” is a term of art coined in [http://supreme.justia.com/us/401/424/index.html Griggs vs Duke Power], 1971, in which, as I [http://www.vdare.com/posts/derbyshire-on-will-the-united-states-survive/ said a while back], ''''“The message of Griggs and “disparate impact” theory: if minorities fail tests at a higher rate than whites, it’s the [http://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/math_test_improper_for_police.html test] that’s wrong.”''''
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 The long term effect of Griggs`s [http://www.vdare.com/posts/disparate-impact-legal-and-political/ >Disparate Impact theory] is explained well in [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=site%3Avdare.com+The+Bell+Curve%3A+&amp;btnG=Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi= The Bell Curve:] It pushes the evaluation process required for hiring back from the employer to the university. It exacerbates the tendency toward credentialism in American life.