This had been tried before, and it failed spectacularly. Women did even worse.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
Following through on their source [1], it says that the study outcome actually favors women and minority candidates, but it doesn't say how much, or talk about statistical signifance. It seems like the experiment design has been criticized on this one study too, and not releasing the results seems suspect.
The study also cites that blind auditions were a success for Orchestras [2]:
>In a well-known study analysing data on auditions and hiring by orchestras over this period, Goldin & Rouse (2000) found that the use of blind auditions had a major impact on gender bias in orchestras, increasing the likelihood of female musicians being selected by 25-40%.
[1] http://behaviouraleconomics.pmc.gov.au/projects/going-blind-...
http://behaviouraleconomics.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/p...
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>> The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview. Adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door.
Seems like it did the job of removing existing bias when details were blind.
And if it's not true, arguably what you've done is removed the adjustment variables that could correct the bias, rather than the bias itself.
At what point do we start growing people solely for the purpose of leading unbiased existences away from all of humanity? Of course these existences are isolated from all humanity lest they associate the human that gives them food with positivity, or someone having a bad day with negativity. And of course, we kill these unbiaseds shortly after every selection process, since the mere process of selection itself, generates bias.
Some SF writer must have beaten me to this right?
The people who reviewed and approved the designs for our office space were all males. Guess what they forgot to put in the women's restrooms? When women complained, they put an open trash can next to the toilet with no lid...
The problem with the whole conversation around this topic is everyone pretending that women and men on average have the same level of skills and experience as each other. Then they act shocked when there are so few qualified male nurses or female mechanics.
Businesses only care about this topic, because it helps them design products and provide services that address a wider market. So, maybe they should just admit they don't always hire the absolute technically best candidate as the goal is to improve the social structure of the team.