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by hinkley 2265 days ago
Google talks a lot of shit about rather missing out on a good candidate than hiring a bad one.

What removing a metric tells you is that people that they regretted hiring people who looked fine on those metrics. They have no way to determine if people who failed on other metrics were better than the people they hired.

The problem is that if you measure someone by a metric you can’t actually disregard it in your decision process. Even a double blind affects the subject’s behavior.