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Clewza313 · 2021-08-05 00:50:01

That's the way it ought to be, but unfortunately that's not the way it is considered by many in reality, so it's rational for a candidate to want to avoid that situation.

__MatrixMan__ | karma 5321 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2023-01-25 11:43:10

Worth noting, yes. But it's also not unreasonable to prefer candidates that avoid such environments.

nathanwdavis | karma 731 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2014-11-03 02:24:40+00:00

That is true. For the right candidate, that is an option.

duxup | karma 38842 | avg karma 3.68 · | 2022-01-21 21:04:51

Generally you wouldn’t want to speak poorly about a candidate’s choices to their face.

gedrap | karma 4142 | avg karma 4.67 · | 2016-03-09 10:14:28

I think another reason is a fear of starting an endless argument with the candidate, when candidate believes he was actually right and the company made the decision already so it's rather pointless. Not sure how likely is it happen though.

monocasa | karma 27236 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2017-10-18 20:40:44

Why is the candidate even being asked this question in this case?

Also, your hypothetical situation is happening already.

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judk | karma 2659 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2014-06-13 16:40:13+00:00

It's flat out wrong. You'd end up with the last candidate, not the second best, as you say.

jamesaguilar | karma 7468 | avg karma 3.26 · | 2011-01-05 16:18:43

It betrays a desire to avoid a large chunk of bad candidates while discarding only a few good ones.

ummonk | karma 11811 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2019-11-04 18:57:37+00:00

It isn’t. Some political candidates are.

refactor_master | karma 735 | avg karma 3.4 · | 2021-07-23 11:17:26

Of course. You wouldn’t want an unlucky candidate.

hotpotamus | karma 3714 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2023-05-30 07:41:33

> even when it comes to presidential candidates

I get that some of us are more equal than others, but the ideal is that even the president is not above the law, and a candidate isn't even the president yet.

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hycaria | karma 812 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2018-01-12 13:31:45

The problem there being ? Apart from the (sofar unbeknownst to me) existence of a "wrong" candidate ?

partycoder | karma 2332 | avg karma 0.95 · | 2017-09-01 21:52:28

If this happens is not due to lack of candidates bur rather because of extraneous and extravagant expectations.

tatsuke95 | karma 2390 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2012-11-06 07:24:45

>"If there are only bad candidates the situation is more complex, but this is an edge case which only happens in thought experiments"

I think you and I have differing opinions about the candidates. What do you consider "good"? Has there even been a "good" candidate in the past 20, 30 years?

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wolco | karma 4805 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2018-08-30 18:25:19+00:00

It's foolish because the process elimates the best candidates.

arxpoetica | karma 431 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2015-08-11 16:51:26+00:00

Probably not politically feasible, but could help if he picks someone as politically neutral as possible.

> It shouldn't matter what other political issues drive you...

But that's the problem; it does matter.

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bad_user | karma 29557 | avg karma 3.94 · | 2015-10-12 12:27:16+00:00

It's more likely that it will make the candidate look like an asshole.

whateveracct | karma 5466 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2024-01-16 12:25:09

Not saying that, but some of those reasons for passing on a candidate are straight-up illegal.

C1sc0cat | karma 1896 | avg karma 0.76 · | 2020-07-09 10:35:26+00:00

But your excluding a large group of possible candidates

Zikes | karma 8261 | avg karma 3.51 · | 2016-12-06 00:25:27+00:00

There could be reasonable ways to accomplish that. Knowing how well a candidate handles frustrating situations is definitely worthwhile, I just think there should be a lot of caution about how the situation is presented so that the candidate doesn't get the wrong impression.