Re:Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner ...
by proveanegative on Saturday March 28, 2015 @03:26AM
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>wacom stylus
That might not work as intended. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology),
>Uniformly the research indicates that gender can be determined [from handwriting] at a significant level.
Considering the subject is graphology, of course, one may question the quality of the studies cited but at least the journals like Journal of Applied Psychology appear legitimate.
Re:Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner ...
by brg on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:04PM
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In my experience, at the hiring level gender bias works towards normalizing the current skew of modalities. It is after hiring, when growing leaders and assigning responsibilities that bias is more often clear.
Re:Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner ...
by gregory144 on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:50AM
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I agree with you that this would be a great experiment. However, that won't stop any potential bias once they get the job.
Re:Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner ...
by thesimpsons5454 on Saturday March 28, 2015 @03:12AM
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simple. require everyone to work in cubicles that are closed off where your coworkers cant see you. all voice chats must be done without video and with voice modulation technology so that gender can not play a role. Also, the persons name must always be changed to J Smith to not hint at gender or race.
Just use a collaborative editor and possibly wacom stylus (can't be any more cumbersome than the traditional whiteboard), plus a text chat interface to conduct the interview. The interviewer interacts with the candidate in real time but doesn't see him or her.
Where cheating is a concern you can have a different employee (who does not provide interview feedback) monitoring the candidate over a camera to ensure they're only using the approved terminal, not phoning a friend.
Any medium to large-sized software company should be able to pull this off, and it would eliminate the possibility of gender bias in the interview results.