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No, but unconscious biases can have equally pernicious consequences. Take tech for example. When hiring companies select for candidates with "culture fit" and
by gizmo 11y ago
No, but unconscious biases can have equally pernicious consequences.
Take tech for example. When hiring companies select for candidates with "culture fit" and that effectively rules people out based on their race/ethnicity or religion. Those people get fewer opportunities as a result which results in lower compensation. It's very difficult to judge who is qualified for a job and who is not. So people take shortcuts. Reject those who didn't graduate from a good college. Reject those who didn't get the right internships. Reject those who don't have relatable hobbies and life goals. All of these hiring shortcuts effectively discriminate against qualified minorities, even if the intentions of all involved are pure as snow.
- merpnderp 11y agoSo wanting a new hire to enjoy programming on the side to try to screen out those who aren't really in to programming is racially discriminatory? Cause that's going to require some profound evidence.
- kabouseng 11y agoAnd yet all these shortcuts have argumentatively a moderate to strong correlation to job performance. Also there is from my understanding very little discrimination toward asian minorities, wouldn't the same "shortcuts" also then discriminate against them, yet asians are seen as hard working and smart employees...
- gizmo 11y agoWhether there is a correlation is immaterial. I'm saying that it's immoral and discriminatory to judge an individual by extrapolating from group characteristics. (And there is a ton of discrimination against Asian and Asian-American tech employees, for instance the degree at which they get promoted to management positions: http://fortune.com/2015/05/06/silicon-valley-asians-report/ http://fortune.com/2015/05/06/silicon-valley-asians-report/)