Newhairdo:
The whole idea of psychometric testing is, in my view, complete and utter BS
I couldn't agree more - when I joined Ansett in 1969, before you even got to the final interviews you spent a day with Chandler & MacLeod doing all sorts of tests. At the commencement of the intake course one gent was singled out and lauded as having "the best results ever". Subsequently his problem turned out to be that he couldn't fly an aeroplane to save himself and was quietly let go following a disastrous (attempted) F.27 endorsement.