Bias is more about assigning judgments to a person based on visible qualities rather than actual capabilities. IOW - Elderly people who can actually code get d

Bias 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.