| JackHandy said: Do you understand, now? The only fair way to hire people is to do it based on qualifications and merit. |
Let say I agree with this. The issue is still how do you determine the most qualified person without bias. I know of plenty of instances where my boss was choosing between 2 white males and one had better education and better work history but we went with the other guy because he interviewed better for example. Is that not inherently bias in that it base on personality more than what on the resume? If all the people doing the hiring is from one culture does that not give a disadvantage to someone trying to get a job from another culture?
A good example is orchestras use to be almost all men and the reason they gave was men just played the music better when they did auditions. In the 1970's they started doing blind auditions so the people doing the hiring could only hear them not see them. Almost immediately many many woman started getting jobs in orchestras. Was the men lying before? Probably some but other probably really believe what they saying but they had a bias toward men they did not even know they had.
Unfortunately many jobs not so easy to implement a truly unbias hiring process as it not as simple as a musician where being judge by how well you play music is good enough therefore a blind audition works perfectly.
For most jobs looking at education and job history not enough and I know plenty of times where other factors over took resume when choosing between two white males but when a minority is chosen over a white male because of something other than what on the resume suddenly it is raciest toward whites and must be stop. I never seen that compliant when it happens when one white person chosen over another. Instead it giving someone a chance base on liking them, or some other factor other then what on the resume. Seem that a double standard.
I hate how people over simplify this as choosing the most qualify when in the history of this country that never how hiring worked. There always been bias weather it you know the father of the person applying, you went to the same school of them, came from the same town, they had a story about there up bringing that make you want to give them a chance over someone etc.
Maybe a game studio think have the views of someone that black give a unique perspective to vision of the game they making. Why is that not a reason the black candidate is more qualify then the white candidate even if the white candidate more qualify on paper. Choices like that are made all the time between 2 white candidates and it dont get this kind of outrage.
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