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Each year U.S. businesses lose as much as $40 billion to employees who steal. To protect their profit margins, many hard-hit companies have resorted to routine polygraph screening of workers and job applicants. But the scientific validity of these devices has never been proved, and the tests have sometimes caused harm to people who are falsely implicated. Such is the case of Shama Holleman, a college student who took a job in 1987 as a part-time cashier for Alexander's department-store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because...
...honesty exams, which were given to 3.5 million job applicants last year at a cost of $5 to $15 each, can be surprisingly straightforward. A questionnaire published by Reid Psychological Systems of Chicago asks test takers to mark whether or not they recently "overcharged a customer for personal gain" or "took something from a store without paying for it." Many job applicants freely reveal their transgressions. "People put things on written tests they wouldn't tell their mothers," says Larry Audler, vice president of personnel for the New Orleans-based D.H. Holmes department-store chain...
...written surveys usually include a few ringers (example: "Do you always tell the truth?") to determine whether a job seeker is being candid. No single answer brands a person as a liar or thief, but those who administer the test watch for ominous patterns. Observes Arthur Le Blanc, a California psychologist who helped screen new employees hired for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles: "If you score in a certain range, you're more likely to be dishonest...
Reagan vs. Bush. Reagan's expansive claims about having revived the American Dream have helped keep his popularity high. But the public takes a hard-headed view of his performance in some areas; 55% think he did a "poor job" in maintaining programs for the needy, and 63% fault him for the deficit. In fact, Americans expect Bush to outperform Reagan on some issues...
Compared with Reagan, do you think Bush will do a better or worse job...