Well, selecting people is perhaps a better way to put it. I assemble teams from time to time. Sometimes these are project-specific, sometimes these are founders

Well, selecting people is perhaps a better way to put it. I assemble teams from time to time. Sometimes these are project-specific, sometimes these are founders for a startup, rarely are they old-fashioned "here's a paycheque, here's your cubicle" situations. I never suggested that my practices are some sort of universal heuristic for every organization to use, nor did I suggest that other means of finding people were incorrect, or that other typs of people would not perform adequately or even better than the people I get to know. I wouldn't call the post academic at all, but I would say that discussion about lawsuits is academic. FWIW, I try to avoid discrimination because it conflicts with my values, not because of the possibility of legal trouble. I'm a member of a visible minority myself, so I'm keenly interested in avoiding bias even if it is by accident.