Kontextmaschine

26th July 2014

Link reblogged from Fnord with 19 notes

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queenshulamit:

moteinthedark:

I wonder why more people aren’t into blinded hiring.

Like, evaluate people on work samples without knowing their name or seeing their face. It ought to reduce discrimination, right?

I did that, more or less, and got a 50-50 gender ratio (in a technical…

Because for the small workplaces that represent most of the American employment experience, for the employment experience that represents most of the typical American life, this would unduly optimize for the question of “what will this person contribute to our profit-oriented commercial enterprise” over the more important question “what will this person contribute to our lived social experience as a potential friend/lover/breeding partner, connection to external social networks, and figure we have to deal with or at least coexist near for most of most days”, dipshit.