Its worse than this. It doesn't matter if a human understands recency bias, the availability heuristic or the halo effect.
It will still change the decision. It doesn't matter if you "understand" these concepts or not. Or you use some other bias or heuristic to over correct the previous bias or heuristic you think you understand.
This topic people I think tend to confuse outright discrimination with the much more subtle bias and heuristics a human uses for judgement under uncertainty.
The interview process really shows how much closer we are to medieval people than what we believe ourselves to be.
Picking a candidate based on the patterns of chicken guts wouldn't be much less random and might even be more fair.
It will still change the decision. It doesn't matter if you "understand" these concepts or not. Or you use some other bias or heuristic to over correct the previous bias or heuristic you think you understand.
This topic people I think tend to confuse outright discrimination with the much more subtle bias and heuristics a human uses for judgement under uncertainty.
The interview process really shows how much closer we are to medieval people than what we believe ourselves to be.
Picking a candidate based on the patterns of chicken guts wouldn't be much less random and might even be more fair.