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0 pointskqr5y ago0 comments

There will be a great number of well-qualified women who do not respond at all to more demanding ads. Less demanding ads catch these, but also catch a large number of under-qualified men.

It's a precision-recall problem, and by selecting differently in the two situations I speculate that one could get more well-qualified candidates with less effort.

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exporectomy5y ago

But how will you distinguish the well qualified female applications from the large number of under-qualified men? Surely not by their sex which is probably illegal and certainly unethical.

kqrOP5y ago

The legal question is definitely interesting, but I don't see how it would be unethical to use the most powerful set of signals available. The situation seems to me a bit similar to how grocery stores and cafes package what's essentially the same product under a large range of price points to let the more price-sensitive customers self-select.

If I find anything unethical, it's knowingly continuing the practise of writing job postings that put one group of people at a clear and documented disadvantage.

CyberDildonics5y ago

Or you could put out an honest job listing based on what you want and stop bamboozling yourself with sexist assumptions.

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