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189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

The Michael Shermer Show

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Do You Have a Noise Problem in Your Hiring Process?

In addition to any bias that you have, there is a problem of noise. Different hiring officers looking at the same cases do not read the same conclusion. There's a lot of noise in refereing, even in science. People are being hired that shouldn't be hired, and people are being rejected that shouldn't be rejected. So you can have no bias and a lot of noise, or you can have both bias and noise. They're adjective and independent. And thinking that it's either or is is a mistake. It's a very common so if gogle or apple brings you in saysa, what should we do in our hiring process to get rid of our noise?

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