Pedro Domingos

The study he's talking about only looked at hiring decisions involving "identically qualified" male and female applicants. It says nothing about less-qualified women getting hired over more-qualified men.

As a hiring manager, I *do* choose female candidates over males if they're otherwise identical, for two reasons: a qualified woman probably had to work harder to obtain those identical credentials (c.f. the prof who started this thread), and I'm fixing unjust demographics.

“as a hiring manager, i routinely perform illegal discriminatory hiring practices on the basis of protected categories. i’d just like to post about this on twitter and receive no consequences whatsoever for the crimes i continue to commit, which again, i’ve outlined above”

These people keep skipping over the "identical credentials" part as though those words weren't there, which of course they do because in their minds there's no such thing.

you indicated that you’re making hiring decisions on the basis of sex. that’s illegal. obviously i have no intention of getting you in trouble but i’d just advise you to stop bragging about crimes

You're the one who said the situation I described is impossible and can't happen in the real world, so I'm not too worried.

i don’t think you know what the word “describe” means. i nearly quoted you - what you said was you’d hire the woman “if they’re otherwise identical”. how many instances in history have two peoples’ CV’s been exactly identical

You've lost the plot - this thread started with a CompSci prof drastically misinterpreting a study that artificially created literally identical candidates. The study showed a preference for female candidates in that scenario, and I'd have the same preference.