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		home_boi on Oct 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If you care about diversity, don't just hire from ... I can see this being true if the people work at the same company (and already passed the same filter). I doubt it would be true over the entire university CS populations. If the only thing you know about two applicants is their university, then the student from a top tier university will on average perform much better than the student from a low tier university.

jaggederest on Oct 25, 2017 [–]

If the only thing you know about two applicants is their university, you literally don't know anything about them and need to start over.

I'm like 99% sure it's zero information. Most hiring processes don't falsify the null hypothesis :P

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