On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Jason White wrote: Someone told me a story once about a study of (I guess) a large organization's hiring procedures, trying to build an expert system that could automate the first rounds of hiring. Given prospective hires' resumes, and the list of those who had actually been hired, they asked the computer what the highest correlated factor was. It turned out to be skin colour. So they said "whoops, that wasn't the result we wanted" and they removed the photos from the corpus and asked the computer again, and it said "length of surname" -- presumably because honkies are more likely to be called Smith than Ramsoonajar.
I completely forgot to mention that she is Chinese as well. I did not think of it. Female & Chinese -> You can forget to have a career in Melbourne? The other thing I see again and again is the inaptitude of HR and management in bigger companies to promote and value their own staff. In the company in question, unhappy staff finally left. They returned as consulants because the company found out that they left a knowledge gap. Now they are costing probably a few times of the salary they refused to increase over years. Regards Peter