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> I settled on adding 0.5 points to the score of every woman I interview (then rounding to a whole number). Also, I champion them if they are borderline in the
by Manuel_D 4y ago
> I settled on adding 0.5 points to the score of every woman I interview (then rounding to a whole number). Also, I champion them if they are borderline in the panel discussion.
So you deliberately engage in gender discrimination? You just straight up give women a bonus, across the board, explicitly on account of their gender?
Imagine someone saying the inverse, "I find that men outperform women on average, so I settled on adding 0.5 points to the score of every man I interview."
- hedora 4y agoI'd be fine handicapping in the other direction if the raw scores empirically favored women. There is nothing sacred about my personal opinion on how people do in interviews. I judge as objectively as I can, and that leads me to unfairly score women 0.5 points too low (based on hindsight and hired candidates' job performance). There is plenty of scientific evidence saying that coding interviews are way more stressful for women, causing them to underperform on average. Not correcting for that would be sexist.