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There'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 un
by perl4ever 7y ago
There'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.