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Personally, when the firefighters come to put out a fire at my house, I don't think that a standardized written test or an oral exam or interviews will have measured the skill set I'm going to want them to have.
However, when it comes to promotion to leadership roles and training of other firefighters, I think the tests probably have some merit.
The article I linked above goes over the tests and other tests that can be used.
The white firefighters in the suit claim that every question on the test came from the readily available study guide. If that's true, it's hard to figure out, why the test would be particularly racially or ethnically biased, except as the results shook out, which is the heart of a disparate impact claim.
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