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>By looking at their resumes where they claim this? By contacting references who will attest to it? By trusting the intuition of subjective evaluators of the ca
by nategri 8y ago
>By looking at their resumes where they claim this? By contacting references who will attest to it? By trusting the intuition of subjective evaluators of the candidates?
I mean... Yes?
This system, backed by "trusted recommenders" is exactly what academia uses, and they seem perfectly capable of discovering Higgs Bosons and whatnot.
- mav3rick 8y ago"intuition of subjective evaluators of the candidates" This is inherently biased and proven to be the worst way to hire people.
- saagarjha 8y agoThey physics communinity does not seem to have the issue of being able to judge merit from resumes. When you see a physics PhD with a list of academic references, chances are that the person knows what they are doing; with computer science it’s somehow likely that the person might not know their way around the command line or when using an array might be a bad idea…
- SomewhatLikely 8y agoIronic example, as the guy who theorized the Higgs Boson originally doesn't think he'd be productive enough for today's environment. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...