> Since we have already established that the candidates are in all other respects equal No we haven't. We've established that the candidates are all people you

> Since we have already established that the candidates are in all other respects equal No we haven't. We've established that the candidates are all people you want to hire. That doesn't mean you have no preference between them. It would be really weird if ten candidates all seemed equally competent. And if you can rank them, ~2% of the time there'll be two women at the top, ~36% of the time there'll be a man and a woman, and the rest of the time there'll be two men.