Read "Google Hiring Algorithm" and answer the following questions.

1. Is this an example of prescriptive analytics?

2. Why would an algorithm make better hiring decisions than a human would make?

Google Answer To Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm By SAUL HANSELL MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Have you ever made a profit from a ca- tering business or dog walking? Do you prefer to work alone or in groups? Have you ever set a world record in anything? The right answers could help get you a job at Google. Google has always wanted to hire people with straight-A report cards and double 800s on their SATs. Now, like an Ivy League school, it is start- ing to look for more well-rounded candidates, like those who have pub- lished books or started their own clubs. Desperate to hire more engineers and sales representatives to staff its rapidly growing search and advertis- ing business, Google - in typical ec- centric fashion - has created an automated way to search for talent among the more than 100,000 job ap- plications it receives each month. It is starting to ask job applicants to fill out an elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to high school. The questions range from the age when applicants first got excited about computers to whether they have ever tutored or ever estab- lished a nonprofit organization. The answers are fed into a series\f\f