Reply to post: Re: Merit doesn't care about "diversity and inclusiveness"

Re: Merit doesn't care about "diversity and inclusiveness"

Actually, no, you don't have the "opposite problem". You just think you do because that is what "they" have been telling you.

Any business owner or manager wants to hire the best person for the job, regardless of sex or color of skin. They want to hire the best for the money because that is what makes THEM the most money. In the end it is the money, the maximizing of their bonuses or stockholder value, that they care about.

As for biases being "repeatedly shown" -- what has been shown is that interviewers give "bonus points" to people most like themselves, so black interviewers will give bonus points to black candidates, women interviewers will give bonus points to women candidates, etc. Interviews aren't so much about qualifications, they are about how well you will fit with the team. By the time you get to the interview stage qualification checks are usually a done deal, and in any technical job the interviewer usually isn't qualified to judge those qualifications anyway. That is why when you interview you find out ahead of time as much as you can about the company, dress codes, etc. and dress and act accordingly - because if you can be more "like them" then you will get those bonus points regardless of sex or color.

Also, just because someone has better qualifications doesn't mean that they will get the job. If someone has ADEQUATE qualifications and will work for less, then that person is often more likely to get the position.

Either way, MERIT and DIVERSITY are usually mutually exclusive, because one is color-blind and the other places value on skin color (or sex, or sexual orientation, religion, or whatever else is decided by the PC crowd this month to be "lacking" in their utopian formula)