Suppose a shipping company required all applicants to lift fifty-pound boxes on and off a truck for an hour to test their strength and endurance and suppose that resulted in 50-out-of-100 black applicants being hired and 10-out-of-100 white applicants being hired. If this test measured the performance required on the job then this would be an example of
A. disparate treatment discrimination.
B. adverse impact discrimination.
C. statistical discrimination.
D. rational discrimination.
Answer: B
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