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Of course it doesn't. I talk about this in my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12859833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12859833), many
by Manishearth 10y ago
Of course it doesn't. I talk about this in my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12859833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12859833), many companies are okay with false negatives. And false negatives are okay. Sad, but okay.
However, if your metric for hiring is also correlated with favoring a particular demographic, you shouldn't be using it. False negatives are not okay when you disproportionately target one group.