Hello, everyone.

Heather Lynn McDonald is an American political commentator, essayist, attorney and author.

Her new book, Med April, released when race Trump's merit is now available.

Heather it's a pleasure to be able to talk to you today.

I thought I might open our conversation about your new book when race Trump's merit with

a technical description of what constitutes merit.

And so, and you may know some of this, but I doubt very much whether the people who are

watching and listening know.

So imagine that your task as a psychologist with ethically proceeding to develop hiring

criteria for a given job.

So what you have to do is you have to perform what's called a job analysis and what that

means is a decomposition of the requirements of the job into a list of skills and functions.

And then you have to look for predictors then on the hiring side that will increase the

probability that the person you hire will be able to carry out that list of skills and

functions.

Now it turns out that as jobs increase in complexity and so a complex job is one where the demands

of the job change quite rapidly.

So there are jobs like factory line worker is a good example where once you've learned

the routine, all you do is repeat it.

And then there are other jobs where the requirements of the job switch from situation to situation

and day to day.

And so managerial jobs are complex sales jobs are complex jobs in the medical field are

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