A research paper published by Jada Wiggleton-Little and Craig Callender.
ABSTRACT. Autistic adults suffer from an alarmingly high and increasing unemployment rate. Many companies use pre-employment personality screening
tests. These filters likely have disparate impacts on neurodivergent individuals,
exacerbating this social problem. This situation gives rise to a bind. On the one
hand, the tests disproportionately harm a vulnerable group in society. On the other,
employers think that personality test scores are predictors of job performance
and have a right to use personality traits in their decisions. It is difficult to say
whether these negative disparate impacts are a case of wrongful discrimination.
Nevertheless, we will show that pre-employment personality tests prey on several
features of autism in an unfair way, and for this reason, we suggest the contours
of some regulation that we deem necessary.
Neurodiversity in Tech, Qualcomm Institute
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