Your comments on school history etc are completely valid in the context of inference. I'd like to think that we could genuinely make a fairly well balanced sys

Your comments on school history etc are completely valid in the context of inference. I'd like to think that we could genuinely make a fairly well balanced system for meritocratic selection. Yes, it's a lot of work and there is always room for error however I'd like to think that ultimately the STEM industry favours these kinds of methods and they could be improved on so we'd see some kind of futuristic system that we saw in the Starship Troopers narrative (as a crazy example that in the movie at least, no-one complained about). Maybe we just need a ton more data to be able to make better predictions. But I also think that face-to-face interviews are ultimately needed as others have mentioned: cultural fit is important to a degree as well. On that note it reminds me of the Declara article I read (about the founder Ramona Pierson), where data is working to pair relevant people. https://www.declara.com https://www.declara.com