Classes moved online: Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades

[rcjordan]

https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/attractive-female-students-no-longer-earned-higher-grades-when-classes-moved-online-during-covid-19-64251

[ergophobe]

Matt Mullenweg says their hiring process got much better when they switched to an email-only interview process.

At least at the time (I think it was a Tim Ferriss interview) he said they disregarded resumes, degrees, transcripts, and letters of recommendation, and got rid of in-person and phone interviews. Instead, they looked at code samples, community participation (Wordpress.org, github, etc) and written communication only.

He said that has stopped them from, say, filtering out topnotch programmers or customer support people who have a speech impediment. Presumably, it also reduces the number of attractive woment they hire (or maybe increases it if the cultural bias was that attractive women can't code)

[rcjordan]

Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students | PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1211286109

[DrCool]

>email-only interview process

We have switched to a blind resume process where the managers and people giving input on the hiring can't see the applicants name or other personal info like that. Takes out some of the implicit bias we might have when we see a foreign sounding name, a female name vs a male name, etc. and overall it has helped with our Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. Our number of female and minority employees in salaried positions has gone up a few percentage points. Once there is a live interview either in person or on Zoom it doesn't really matter but it is getting more diversity to the interview stage of the process.

[creative666]

My wife manages a paid search team for a UK agency remotely and is involved in the hiring process of her new team members and they also use a blind interview process.

Recruitment company gathers potential candidates
Candidates conducts multple online tests
Email interview the ones who made it through
Zoom/Google call the ones who made it through
Face to face the ones who made it through

[rcjordan]

Wide and Lasting Consequences: Teachers Give Girls Higher Grades Than Boys

https://scitechdaily.com/wide-and-lasting-consequences-teachers-give-girls-higher-grades-than-boys/