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by ClumsyPilot 2012 days ago
- "The real answer is that markets are efficient"

Like it efficiently chooses all hockeyplayers with birthdays in January to March? [0]

The real answer is people hire based on their biases and organisational restrictions more than they hire on objective metrics - and we have plenty of evidence for that.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect