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Agreed on the fashion. Hiring both 1) fairly to all candidates and 2) most effectively for the company is a difficult and potentially impossible task. Introduci
by effie 8y ago
Agreed on the fashion. Hiring both 1) fairly to all candidates and 2) most effectively for the company is a difficult and potentially impossible task. Introducing quotas is an easy "solution" of this problem for the hiring department.
However, I do not understand your rationale for hiring the woman. By assumption, both the woman and the man have the same skills. It is the histories of how they got those skills that differ.
- eadmund 8y agoIn the hypothetical example, yes the assumption is that they have equivalent skills. My issue is that in real life you can never assume that two candidates have equal skills (in fact, the odds that they do are negligible); instead you have to make assumptions about the probability of increased skill given various priors. Given standard priors based on my own experience, I'd be more likely to hire the woman in that example. If I actually did know that they were exactly identical skill-wise, it'd be a different story.