Pymetrics Games Pymetrics Games 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Pymetrics claims to reduce bias in hiring. How does it attempt to achieve this?
- By removing all game scores and using only interviews
- By auditing algorithms to ensure protected characteristics don't drive outcomes (Correct answer)
- By having human reviewers override all algorithmic results
- By using only verbal and written tests instead of games
Correct answer: By auditing algorithms to ensure protected characteristics don't drive outcomes
Pymetrics audits its algorithms for adverse impact, adjusting benchmarks to ensure race, gender, and other protected attributes don't unfairly influence match scores.
Question 2: In the Stop Signal Game, a faster Stop Signal Reaction Time (SSRT) indicates what?
- Slower overall processing speed
- Better impulse control and response inhibition (Correct answer)
- Higher risk tolerance
- Stronger emotional empathy
Correct answer: Better impulse control and response inhibition
A faster SSRT means you can cancel a response more quickly after seeing a stop signal, reflecting stronger inhibitory control.
Question 3: Which Pymetrics trait is MOST relevant for roles that require sustained focus on repetitive tasks over a long shift?
- Fairness sensitivity
- Attention and focus (sustained attention) (Correct answer)
- Risk tolerance
- Social perceptiveness
Correct answer: Attention and focus (sustained attention)
Sustained attention—measured partly by tasks like the Keypress and Stop Signal games—predicts performance in roles requiring prolonged concentration.
Question 4: A company builds its Pymetrics benchmark from only its top 10% of performers. What risk does this create?
- The benchmark becomes too easy to match
- The benchmark may perpetuate existing workforce biases if top performers aren't diverse (Correct answer)
- Game scores will be too variable to use
- Pymetrics requires a minimum of 1,000 employees to build any benchmark
Correct answer: The benchmark may perpetuate existing workforce biases if top performers aren't diverse
If top performers share demographic characteristics due to historical bias, the benchmark can encode and replicate that bias into future hiring decisions.
Question 5: In the Faces Game, which set of emotions are candidates typically asked to identify?
- Only happiness and sadness
- A range of basic emotions including fear, anger, disgust, surprise, happiness, and sadness (Correct answer)
- Primarily complex social emotions like jealousy and pride
- Only positive emotions to avoid distressing candidates
Correct answer: A range of basic emotions including fear, anger, disgust, surprise, happiness, and sadness
The Faces Game uses the full set of Ekman's six basic universal emotions to assess breadth of emotional recognition ability.
Question 6: What should a candidate do if they experience a technical issue (lag, disconnection) during Pymetrics games?
- Immediately close the browser and restart from scratch
- Contact Pymetrics or the employer's recruiting team to report the issue and request a reset (Correct answer)
- Continue playing and hope the algorithm ignores the affected round
- Email Pymetrics to have the entire assessment deleted
Correct answer: Contact Pymetrics or the employer's recruiting team to report the issue and request a reset
Technical issues should be reported to Pymetrics support or the recruiter so they can reset the affected session without penalizing the candidate.
Question 7: Which Pymetrics game specifically requires holding a growing sequence of numbers and repeating it in REVERSE order?
- Digit Span Backward Task (Correct answer)
- Tower of London
- Card Sort Task
- BART
Correct answer: Digit Span Backward Task
The Digit Span Backward Task requires reversing the recalled sequence, measuring more demanding working memory manipulation than forward recall.
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Pymetrics claims to reduce bias in hiring.
How does it attempt to achieve this?