[Anderkent]

> A good hiring filter filters for skill but doesn't filter for other attributes like race and gender.

It's a trade-off. You want to see as many people meeting your criteria as you can, but don't want false positives. A github profile might have many false negatives (because of the white man skew), but that's a price a company might be willing to pay, if they get enough applicants anyway.

[stonemetal]

True I more meant an ideal hiring filter not merely a good one. Biased hiring filters can get you in trouble in the US, especially if they are known to be biased. That is one of the reasons general IQ tests should be avoided here, they are considered biased.