Firms Are Not Allowed to Ask Certain Questions During Job

question 110

Multiple Choice

Firms are not allowed to ask certain questions during job interviews,including marital status or how many children you have.Why is this the case?

• A) People with children are more productive, thus it is unfair if the firm knows this information.
• B) Firms might use the answers to these questions as a means of statistical discrimination.
• C) People with children are less productive, thus the firm has no right to this information.
• D) Such questions violate the privacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.

---

Definitions:

Z-scores

A measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean. It is used in statistics to identify how unusual or typical a data point is.

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used as a basis for comparing other normal distributions.

Less Than

A mathematical relation indicating that one quantity is smaller than another.

Z-scores

A statistical measurement of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of its population.