“We’re going to flip a coin and if it’s heads and you guessed tails then you're fired, but it’s okay because our research shows that people of your racial group are more likely to guess tails and we think there are too many of your kind around”
The answer key wasn't provided to _any_ black candidate. It was provided to National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees. Members of that group had an advantage while black candidates not of that group didn't.
corruption is still bad but much like if I stab you it's not a mugging unless I also steal something (both still crimes).
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Also, are they using an AI image? The woman's head in the bottom left table is like exploded (and DALL-E in the URL)?
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/1f146012-d119-44df-9fea-5cb...
My understanding is that people complained a) because it did not meet that goal of all acceptances going to qualified applicants, but I certainly haven't read enough to judge that and b) the rollout sounds like a chain of poor decisions - even just splitting it into two separate result steps was guaranteed to raise ire from people who got rejected at that new first step, which would have been reduced if they'd simply made it an internal factor calculated at the same time as the exam result.
edit: but I take it that your argument is "that's a bad goal to have"
Your task is to fix your process so the proportions of green and blue are closer to those of the general population.
How?
You can probably come up with a better design. But I'm not sure that, at core, it would be much different from this.
No, your task is to ensure airplanes don’t collide.
I guess what you're trying to say is that you don't consider it a problem if the hiring process is biased towards one group.