9:57 AM
@Keith Yes there is some risk that diverting efforts to reduce bias may make a search less likely to find the best candidate, but I think this is unlikely.
Hopefully searches are interviewing enough people that they are confident they have the best candidate.
The way I look at it is with unlimited resources you interview candidates until you are confident you have found the best candidate. If it is a male, you then want to make sure you were not biased.
To do this you do extra work and review and interview only the female candidates until you find the best female candidate. You then compare them head to head and take the best one two. In this case, the outcome is only different for the best male and best female candidates. It is hard to see the best male as being disadvantaged since he is not the best candidate.
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2:55 PM
@EnthusiasticStudent I have dismissed a couple of your recent flags because I didn't think they required moderator action. Please take a look at:
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This is a follow on to What's the difference between down-vote, vote to close and flag ? and a recent issue about moderator action: Answer that *is* an answer deleted by mod because "it does not provide an answer"?. I think flags should almost always be accompanied by down votes, comments, and wh...
3:12 PM
How can I see a review report of the flags?, like this one: academia.stackexchange.com/review/close/14500
3:39 PM
@EnthusiasticStudent Flags are different in that they are generally only reviewed by diamond moderators so there is no review report like with close votes.
For example, comments that are too chatty require a diamond moderator to delete the comments because regular users cannot vote to delete comments.
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4:47 PM
"The way I look at it is with unlimited resources you interview candidates until you are confident you have found the best candidate. If it is a male, you then want to make sure you were not biased."
That's ridiculous and sexist. Notice how you said nothing about "if it's a female..."
That's ridiculous and sexist. Notice how you said nothing about "if it's a female..."
So if 100 men applied and only 10 women, and only 4 get interviews, you'd ensure that at least 1-2 women got interviewed...
At this point, I'm not sure you're interested in a reasonable discourse. You're actively saying you're sexist against males, but "that's okay because... uh, females".
There is no way for any reasonable logic to reach you nor anyone else with that sort of hypocritical, distorted belief system.
At this point, I'm not sure you're interested in a reasonable discourse. You're actively saying you're sexist against males, but "that's okay because... uh, females".
There is no way for any reasonable logic to reach you nor anyone else with that sort of hypocritical, distorted belief system.
5:04 PM
5:39 PM
@StrongBad You don't know who the best candidate is, hence the interviewing process. But if you forcefully pick two candidates that aren't the best candidates solely because they have vaginas, then you just eliminated two candidates who should've been picked instead, who had an equal chance at the position.
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