Yeah that's a good point. Nassim Taleb elaborates on a similar one here: https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surgeons-23b0e2cf6d52 https://m

Yeah that's a good point. Nassim Taleb elaborates on a similar one here: https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surgeons-23b0e2cf6d52 https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg... Although technically that's a different effect. Affirmative action is, AFAIK, meant to counter negative bias before (i.e. positive discrimination at university entry is meant to counter worse education and poverty at a primary- and high-school level), whereas you're talking about overcoming biases after graduation ("old boys network" etc).