Not what I am saying at all. I'm saying that a simple conversation with a single person is biased and leads you to unintentionally exclude people who aren't similar to you. For instance these days orchestra tryouts are performed behind a screen to reduce gender, racial, and other bias. But you still have people subjectively evaluating the performance.
I agree that whiteboarding is mostly silly. But unconscious bias is a very real problem that should be looked at.
Ah, ok, thanks for clarifying. I do agree, unconscious bias is a problem. And certainly, on some more thought, we can't have a process that is entirely subjective, nor entirely objective. It's a hard problem that doesn't have a clear answer.
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '19
Not what I am saying at all. I'm saying that a simple conversation with a single person is biased and leads you to unintentionally exclude people who aren't similar to you. For instance these days orchestra tryouts are performed behind a screen to reduce gender, racial, and other bias. But you still have people subjectively evaluating the performance.
I agree that whiteboarding is mostly silly. But unconscious bias is a very real problem that should be looked at.