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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
exactly. the idea that there is a single and reliable way to judge “merit,” that this can be purely quantitative and that job performance is a straightforward function of “merit” should be ridiculous to anyone who has held a job
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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The single qualification for merit they really have is being white or Asian. It isn’t actually quantitative. The students for fair admissions wrote about MIT, Berkeley, and Caltech even though they’re plaintiff lacked the quantitative merits to be accepted to any of them.
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David Farnell
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I’m on a hiring committee at my uni every year. We have a multipoint quantitative screening procedure that is pretty obviously an exercise in CYA. It shows we “measured their merit.” To some extent it does, but we could measure it just as much, much faster, w/o the procedure.
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It's even worse than that. While you can't do that for an individual job, we can see what hiring practices are better in general. Study after study has shown that racially diverse companies outperform their monochrome competition. Their goal isn't "the best business," it's "the whitest one."
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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but they know this too. their belief is that white men ought to be entitled to the most valuable and prestigious positions irrespective of whether they can actually perform in them.
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BRAK AND BLUE
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In BigLaw the hiring department gatekept basic qualifications but past that a lot was basically vibes, a "does this person feel like they fit our style and would I work with them" The kind of person who sues like this almost certainly has terrible vibes people don't want to work with!
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ptrourke
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But it is an incredibly useful fiction that can be deployed, with accompanying cherry-picked metrics, when justifying hiring your brother-in-law's brother-in-law or your sorority sister as "the most qualified candidate."
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Derek Vandivere
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And, I think, for those who have risen to the top, recognizing that "merit" isn't the quantitative yardstick they claim it is would mean recognizing that luck has had something to do with where they landed (I saw this a lot in the years I spent at Accenture).
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