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Originally Posted by larrymcg421
Well that depends on what's being tested. If the test focuses on stuff largely unrelated to the job, then I wouldn't necessarily want that. Ginsburg's dissent discusses how nearby cities like Bridgeport ran into similar issues racial disparities in the results, but have since changed their tests to factor the oral portion more heavily. The argument being that oral examinations focus more on how a firefighter would immediately respond to any number of given situations. Since Bridgeport made that change, African-Americans have scored significantly higher on the tests.
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Or you could argue that oral exams are more subjective and each person could hear an answer a different way.