Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ...
by renewiltord on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:08PM
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Knowledge workers have a scale effect that others don't. Software stuff has a scale effect.
This is why a top PI or scientist can literally save hundreds of millions (as Norman Borlaug did) but the best surgeon can save mere thousands in their life at best using surgery¹. There is a scale effect.
Likewise, SWEs can write code that can apply to all people.
Same with the top public policy people, for instance. It's the length of the lever and where the fulcrum is placed.
No nurse has that lever.
¹ I hate having to handle the edge-casers, but scientists can come up with new surgical procedures (as Werner Forssmann did) and that is way for them to use a long lever.
This is why a top PI or scientist can literally save hundreds of millions (as Norman Borlaug did) but the best surgeon can save mere thousands in their life at best using surgery¹. There is a scale effect.
Likewise, SWEs can write code that can apply to all people.
Same with the top public policy people, for instance. It's the length of the lever and where the fulcrum is placed.
No nurse has that lever.
¹ I hate having to handle the edge-casers, but scientists can come up with new surgical procedures (as Werner Forssmann did) and that is way for them to use a long lever.