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With respect, I think what you just wrote is statistical nonsense. If your ultimate selection from a pool is heavily biased towards an irrelevant fact (gender)
by ChrisSD 8y ago
With respect, I think what you just wrote is statistical nonsense. If your ultimate selection from a pool is heavily biased towards an irrelevant fact (gender) then countering that bias can lead to a better selection.
- m1el 8y agoA better solution would be to do gender-blind hiring, not gender quotas.
- ChrisSD 8y agoI was only responding to the suggestion that quotas are "mathematical nonsence". I don't know if they are the best solution or not.
- kraigie 8y agoThis would also account for transgender and intersex individuals too. Why shouldn't the right person be hired just because they have both sets of genitalia? How does that fit in to the quota system?
- AnIdiot 8y agoThat's true. But consider that in some majors such as software engineering there are 5 times as many men as women. If you try to hire women, your pool will be so much smaller you'll almost certainly choose worse candidates.