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> You're admitting to using population statistics to evaluate individual job candidates. I am, in effect, using the membership among the population of college
by sokoloff 3y ago
> You're admitting to using population statistics to evaluate individual job candidates.
I am, in effect, using the membership among the population of college degree holders as a tie-breaker.
If you choose to judge that as indistinguishable from, or equivalent to, discrimination based on race, we have a point of disagreement that isn't likely to be resolved.
- lapcat 3y agoI would note that there's not much a leap from "this criterion makes sense as a tie-breaker" to "this criterion makes sense as a résumé filter when you have a very large number of applicants".