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I think job applicants should have to compete with eachother in a craps tournament. Losers are knocked out of the pool until the number of applicants matches th
by jacobwilliamroy 7y ago
I think job applicants should have to compete with eachother in a craps tournament. Losers are knocked out of the pool until the number of applicants matches the number of open positions. I also think this is how we should choose the president.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoWikipedia has an article on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition tl;dr: the method works.
- perl4ever 7y agoThere's an old joke that the first cut is or should be made by randomly throwing away a subset of applications, because you don't want to hire someone who is unlucky.
- perl4ever 7y agoBut seriously, I think it is probably a good idea, if you have to throw out 90% of applications to start, to do it randomly if the alternative is a dubious statistical or ML-derived model. It would make me feel better from the point of view of hiring or as a candidate, not to have the risk of an unforeseen undesirable bias.