This is the reason protests like this are needed. Free exercise of bias is a feature built right into the current hiring process, and managers openly admit it.
Not really? Because we don't pool the votes together into a mass pool, we can see a county by county break down of votes, if the votes are off people are going to notice in the electronic world. Not just that but as I said, you can have both a paper and digital ballot for verification. You can also have "check-in" numbers (which I believe most polling places do) to make sure the number of check-ins match the vote tally.
If intelligence were simple we'd know how to test for it. It isn't, and we don't. Not reliably, and certainly not in ways that are absolutely independent of culture and background.
The UK used to have a concept called "mental agility", which seems to be closer to the abilities measured by IQ than the much more complex quality psychologists call general intelligence.
You can have exceptional mental agility - the ability to remember and manipulate symbols and parse symbolic relationships quickly - and still be an utter idiot when it comes to dealing with some or all of reality.
A high IQ will not protect you from ideological beliefs, especially if you grow up with no exposure to other viewpoints, from a lack of mental openness (not to be confused with a lack of curiosity), from "moral" perspectives that are self-reinforcing prejudices, from poor socialisation, and so on.
Or maybe it's not so simple, and IQ can also be changed by environment. It's not a crazy idea that people with more money have better access to education.
And people with more money have less kids. So more intelligent people have less kids, more intelligent people make more money, can spend more to develop those fewer kids' educations, so you have an ever decreasing amount of 'smart' kids and thus the average IQ goes down.
