Diversity - KeynesYouDigIt/Knowledge GitHub Wiki

It's not practical to directly change people's biases, but you can change the environment and data available for decision-making to mitigate the impact of them.

• Trainings need to be voluntary. Mandatory trainings make people resentful and reinforce bias.
• Testing candidates often encourages people to cherry-pick results, amplifying bias
• Performance reviews are easy to game, and only serve as a litigation shield
• Most formal grievance systems make things worse, since it makes people think that broken systems are working when they stop getting complaints

Things that work:

• Voluntary participation in college recruitment
• Formal mentoring programs (everyone thinks their mentees are special)
• Experience working toward the same goal as equals
• Self-managed teams
  • Many specialties still fall along stereotyped lines, cross-functional teams start to blur this
• Discussing hiring and promotion decisions openly

Hiring

• Same questions, same order every time, scored in real time
• Be very careful about job description language, it's very easy to bias