On April 12, 2013 2:33:13 PM Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/12/2013 10:12 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> I still think that the IETF community at large has no intentional
> diversity bias, so the process of discussing and analyzing
> diversity in the context of leadership is to help better describe
diversity induced job qualifications as well as uncovering any
> potential unconscious bias to help overcoming it.
I think it's unintentional, as well, but I'm not sure
that's *much* of an improvement over malicious bias.
It certainly makes it far, far, far more difficult to
address. As I said I think that looking at the pool of
nominees who've accepted their nominations and comparing
it to the pool of people selected would provide one
very rough measure of bias (explicit or otherwise) in
one stage of the process.
While I've been very reluctant to jump on this topic, I have to ask what's
the basis for this assertion? A willingness to do/volunteer for a job says
nothing about one's qualifications for a job. Now if we somehow could
compare 'qualified' nominees vs selected, I'd agree that that could be
interesting....
Lou
Melinda