[ghaff]

You can come up with outlier examples of course--though I'm not sure how relevant they are unless you're looking at hiring a "name" for some reason. But I'd still default to an in-person visit of some sort. I've never seen any data but then in-person was just assumed in most cases until a few years ago.

[dangus]

Read your last two sentences over again. That’s exactly my point: it’s all an old habit that isn’t based on outcomes.

I think it’s a human social instincts thing and not a quantitative thing. There might be a better way but we default to the social ritual because ape brain is most comfortable with it.