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Can you quote the part of the article where they say there was no difference in evaluations after controlling for attrition? Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but I d
by tchaffee 4y ago
Can you quote the part of the article where they say there was no difference in evaluations after controlling for attrition? Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but I do not see that claim anywhere in the article. What I see are claims that:
1. There is no interviewer bias: because women performed exactly the same even with voices that sound like men's voices. Which has the serious flaw I pointed out. I.e "we made women sound like men but they still under-performed in interviews compared to men" so therefor interviewers must not be biased. Ugh. That's terrible science. Because if interviewers can still detect gender after voice modulation then the voice modulation accomplished nothing.
2. Since the interviewers could no longer be biased, the gender gap in performance must come from something else. Oops, the experiment never proved that the interviewers couldn't detect gender. The writer goes on to talk about how bad the problem of attrition is, but I see nowhere that the writer claims performance differences disappear after controlling for attrition. And there is no proof that the attrition wasn't caused by....... women leaving after interviews they felt were sexist.
This is just piss poor science. Which explains why it's an only article and not a peer-reviewed study. And why it got no attention after it was published in 2016.
- hawkesnest 4y agoThis text in in bold in the concluding paragraph >>Once you factor out interview data from both men and women who quit after one or two bad interviews, the disparity goes away entirely.
- tchaffee 4y agoThanks. That still doesn't prove interviewers have no bias. Biased interviewers could play a significant role in why women quit the platform at a higher rate. And it definitely does not prove that the voice masking worked to hide gender.
- mring33621 4y agoThere ABSOLUTELY are biased interviewers. I have personally heard interviewers say: - a candidate is "too sexy" - they want "hot, young Java talent" - you were hired because "you looked good in a suit"
- Manuel_D 4y agoAnd I've heard interviewers say that they've decided a priori to hire a woman because they need to hit their diversity target otherwise they won't get their end of year bonus. I don't doubt lived experiences that some interviews are biased against women, the question is whether there's bias in aggregate.