Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft
by Cyberdog on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:34PM
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I notice that you only use the word “group” above and not “people” or some older word acknowledging that that’s what these groups are made of.
Why judge people by the groups that were born into when we could be judging them as individuals instead?
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft
by sascha_sl on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:44PM
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Have you ever been involved with hiring? The first stage - reading CVs - is not exactly the greatest point in time to judge people as individuals, if they're even read beyond a short skim. It is the biggest opportunity for unconscious bias to reject a candidate.
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft
by Cyberdog on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:51PM
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I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that we shouldn't consider people as individuals when reading their CV because that's when unconscious bias may lead to their rejection? If the latter is true, then shouldn't we do the former all the more?
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft
by psd1 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:48AM
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Maybe. But instead we're training AI.
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft
by sascha_sl on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:23AM
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I'm not saying we shouldn't. I'm saying that's the status quo, and changing people on this level is much harder than a policy that simply says "you must have an underrepresented person in this batch of interview invites". Maybe that'll even get them to read the CVs as a side effect.
If you presuppose that giving disadvantaged groups an extra chance is a positive (your argument sort of does already) and only use wealth as a factor, isn't it still a net positive to uplift the typically poorer group? Doesn't that rightfully uplift more people than it does "wrongly"?