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> If Facebook is attempting to meet diversity quotas, which certainly exist, by pulling from a limited pool of qualifying candidates, in some scenarios, they will necessarily need to employ lower qualified candidates.

You make it sound like existing hiring practices find the best candidates, but we know that they don't. We know traditional hiring practices are bullshit.

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No, that's wrong. Traditional hiring practices are good at separating the wheat from the chaff. Only the incompetents who are rejected bitch about it.

> Traditional hiring practices are good at separating the wheat from the chaff.

But that's not the point parent is making. They're saying that traditional practices find the very best, not that they avoid the worst.

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