> Except when left to our own devices to "look beyond the superficial traits of a person", we usually end up hiring people who remind us ourselves.
Speak for yourself. Also, like similarity goes beyond skin color. I have more in common with a programmer of any race than with a non-programmer of my own race.
Some biases are on the surface and you might be able to avoid them. Others are unconscious and without knowing it exist you can't avoid it.
Problem is people think they are not bias when they actually are!
Let's try something, for the next 10 person that you meet, try to come up with a reason of why you like or dislike them.
And those reasons are just coming justification for your feelings, and it is coming from your unconscious!
> I have more in common with a programmer of any race than with a non-programmer of my own race.
Is that unusual freedom from unconscious bias reflected in the history of what engineers you have chosen to interview, made offers to, or subsequently promoted? Everyone thinks they're free from bias, until the empirical results show that the majority of them mathematically must be wrong.
Speak for yourself. Also, like similarity goes beyond skin color. I have more in common with a programmer of any race than with a non-programmer of my own race.
That being said furries are weird.