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The central point is proven unconsciously bias, which makes "hiring the best person" only possible with blind hiring, and blind marking in University which isn'
by Nomentatus 9y ago
The central point is proven unconsciously bias, which makes "hiring the best person" only possible with blind hiring, and blind marking in University which isn't likely to happen any time soon - to see unconscious bias ignored or passed over is discouraging since it is the problem.
- zimablue 9y agoGood sources for this?
- mpweiher 9y agoWhat evidence do you have for this? What I have read is that the "hiring a lab manager" experiments actually only found an effect for candidates that were (a) mediocre and (b) identically qualified. For exceptional candidates, they did not find bias. If there was a clearly better candidate they did not find bias. Furthermore, the most commonly cited study on this was hiring for a position in a Psychology department. A discipline that is majority female. Other studies have shown that grading tends to be biased towards the gender that is less well represented in a particular field. And of course there's the Ceci-Williams study that showed a 2:1 advantage for women in STEM tenure track hiring.
- Symmetry 9y agoI always assumed the hiring disparity was due to previous steps in the pipeline being biased in some way, as in this PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/bias.html http://www.paulgraham.com/bias.html
- Nomentatus 9y agoAlso more recent research showing that trying train or educate away such bias doesn't work. I would have dropped a reference except I thought this was so well known it could easily be found. If not, start here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-... Meanwhile, thanks for the downvotes on spec - maybe save your downvotes for when you have a bibliography, peeps.