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Or, it may have been like how orchestral directors are completely motivated to recruit the best musicians. And, they will strongly tell you and themselves that
by corysama 7y ago
Or, it may have been like how orchestral directors are completely motivated to recruit the best musicians. And, they will strongly tell you and themselves that gender, ethnicity, etc... are irrelevant. All that matters is how well you play. And yet, somehow if the people selecting the recruits are cut off from information that let's them determine the gender of the recruits, suddenly female musicians are selected at a much higher rate by the same directors!
I would be amazed if 1925 Harvard physically cut of their recruiters from knowing which students were Jewish.
- BadassFractal 7y agoWasn't that study mostly debunked? My understanding was that journalists took some inconclusive data and blew it out of proportion and it became a self-perpetuating meme, disconnected from the original source.
- keanzu 7y agoYes it was: https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-auditions-gelman/ https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-audition... Also no: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-02/that-blind-auditions-study-on-women-in-orchestras-it-holds-up https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-02/that-b... Either pick the source that best fits your pre-existing bias or do your own study.
- BadassFractal 7y agoOr might make gender bias even worse: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...