What the regression effect says

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A human resources director, on learning about the regression effort, decides to hire people who have been fired by their previous employer for poor performance. He argues that the regression effort says people who perform very poorly in their previous job tend to perform well in their next job. Is this what the regression effect says? Explain.

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