Learning about the regression effect

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A human resources director, on learning about the regression effect, decides to hire people who have been fired by their previous employer for poor performance. He argues that the regression effect 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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