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Could you define bias against obesity and elderly here? If I were to categorize the elderly as generally less capable than say, a man in his 40s, I would also
by esyir 7y ago
Could you define bias against obesity and elderly here?
If I were to categorize the elderly as generally less capable than say, a man in his 40s, I would also generally be right. Age comes with it's demerits, and recognizing this would not be anti-elderly bias.
From what I gather, bias is an issue when it unfairly penalizes people for factors outside their control that do not significantly impact their capability.
- SubuSS 7y agoBias is more about assigning judgments to a person based on visible qualities rather than actual capabilities. IOW - Elderly people who can actually code get discriminated against all the time (for basic coding jobs, but obviously everyone thinks they got the next Microsoft brewing). This gets justified in many ways around 'agility', 'flexibility' etc. but in essence it is bias. In some cases there might be actual reasons like you say, problem comes when it is a summary judgment. In general people don't like being judged I guess, and when necessary - like to be judged based on their actual impact. (Granted there are probably also folks who will cry discrimination when there are actual reasons ... I guess we just funded hr eh :). I have heard same goes for overweight people.