1. https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1754214194835075089
2. From the same time period
3. A 2013 FAA document, “Controller Hiring by the Numbers,” raised the issue in stark terms, asking, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/1/editorial-faa-turned-away-qualified-air-traffic-co/
4. WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Federal Aviation Administration must defend itself against a long-running class action over a discarded test for air traffic controllers that gave higher scores to applicants who said science was their worst grade in high school than if they reported previous experience in an air-traffic related job.
Some 1,000 would-be controllers sued the FAA in 2015, claiming the agency adopted a “biographical assessment” in 2014 to screen out non-minority candidates and increase the number of African-American, Latino and female candidates. The FAA adopted the new test – developed by diversity consultants who were paid more than $1.5 million for their work -- without first studying its effectiveness and discarded a pool of thousands of candidates who had already qualified under a standardized aptitude test that had been used for years.
The ”biographical assessment” asked questions including where a candidate heard about air-traffic controller jobs, their grades in high school and college, and whether they were unemployed. A key plaintiffs uncovered in discovery shows candidates who rated themselves as poor science students in high school and played varsity sports but were unemployed would score higher than candidates who were employed and had previous experience with air-traffic control. The FAA abandoned the test under Congressional pressure in 2016.
https://legalnewsline.com/stories/654517369-faa-still-fighting-lawsuit-over-test-that-rewarded-bad-science-grades
From the lawsuit against the FAA filed by the Mountain States Legal Foundation:
…a candidate could be awarded 15 points, the highest possible for any question, if they indicated that their lowest grades in high school were in science…. In contrast, an applicant was awarded only 2 points if they had a pilot’s certificate and no points were awarded for having a Control Tower Operator rating or having Instrument Flight Rules experience…. In addition, one question on the Biographical Questionnaire awarded an applicant 10 points, the most available for that question, if the applicant answered s/he had not been employed in the prior three years. Another question awarded 4 or 8 points if the applicant had been unemployed five or more months in the prior three years. Statistics from the Department of Labor indicate that African Americans had the highest unemployment rate in 2010–2014.
5. Email sent to minority applicants to let them know about buzzwords to include in their application materials
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