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I can provide more than just one example to back up any prejudice you can think of. Treating a person as part of a group is the problem. And when you are tryi
by IAmBroom 1y ago
I can provide more than just one example to back up any prejudice you can think of.
Treating a person as part of a group is the problem.
And when you are trying to isolate one person out of many, like for a job hire, it's not easy to avoid mass-filtering to speed it up.
- yieldcrv 1y agoThere is tons of overfitting done by hiring managers
- sokoloff 1y ago> Treating a person as part of a group is the problem. Yes, but it's efficient and effective in a large number of cases. Those with no programming experience is a group. Those who just graduated a CS program is a group. Fresh bootcamp grads are a group. People with 5+ years of experience with your tech stack are a group. Is there someone with no programming experience who would turn out to be great? Of course; none of us were born with programming experience, but most people are practical enough to not bat an eye when we use past experience as a proxy to quickly pre-filter the possible candidate pool.
- IAmBroom 1y agoExactly true. But being hairless apes, we tend to overrely on our ability to group. "Smells like ___, must be bad at finding bananas in modern C++ product development process." Where ___ is: "no formal education", the accuracy is possibly over 50%. Where ___ is: "Dutch", the accuracy is below 50%