Are Honesty Test Necessary?
The articles I chose are on the subject of honesty tests. The con Article True lies: the dishonesty of honesty tests, talks about how the test can be fooled into thinking someone is honest when the truth is that they are not. The example he gives is that of a nun, Sister Terressa, who was denied employment with a bookstore after having "failed" an honesty test by getting the lowest score ever on the honesty test. This article also talks about how honesty tests lack validity in the science community as there are many false positives that keep dishonest people with a company.
This is different from the pro article I found, Ways to curtail employee theft, as this article says that honesty tests cut employee theft by 40% in two years. Which is great because employee theft accounted for 38 % of total losses from employee theft, shoplifting, supplier theft, and misplacing of goods, which is about the same percentage as shoplifting. The article also states that the eight to twenty dollar tests can be the difference in 2% of goods stolen that accounts for the margin of a company’s viability and failure.

Conclusions Honesty Tests are necessary to hinder employee theft. Honesty Tests can be fooled as they are not an exact science. The cost of not giving honesty tests includes merchandise stolen and/or company funds stolen. A company has to be careful when they pick the supplier of their honesty tests, as exams that do not meet rigorous professional standards of reliability and validity can lead to lawsuits against the organization using them and the test publisher. Honesty Tests don’t show if a person is going to steal or not. Honesty Test are often read by people who don’t know how to read them.
These conclusions lead me to believe that for all the reasons against using honesty tests, there are several reasons as to why they