Why wouldn't I want to take every possible factor into consideration? If I have two people, one of whom has a github with lots of personal projects and the oth

Why wouldn't I want to take every possible factor into consideration? If I have two people, one of whom has a github with lots of personal projects and the other one does not, I'm naturally going to get a better sense of the github developer in terms of their overall capabilities. That doesn't automatically make him the better candidate but it definitely gives me more information to act on. If people don't want to or can't work on personal projects then that's fine, but I'm not going to ignore the people who are passionate about building their own stuff.