Orchestrating Impartiality¶
Goldin, C., & Rouse, C. (2000). Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of 'Blind' Auditions on Female Musicians. American Economic Review, 90(4), 715-741.
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Primes¶
- Blinding
- In hiring and admissions, blind review of applications and identity-redacted screening cut the identity channel — the canonical case being the screen that raised the rate at which a previously disadvantaged group was selected.
This sourceCanonical demonstration that a screen concealing candidate identity raised the rate at which women advanced, including re-cutting a covariate leak by having candidates remove their shoes to silence telltale footsteps.
- In hiring and admissions, blind review of applications and identity-redacted screening cut the identity channel — the canonical case being the screen that raised the rate at which a previously disadvantaged group was selected.
- Selective Information Severance
- The experimental discipline of blinding — sever the treatment-assignment channel to anyone whose expectation could bias the measurement, and break the seal only at analysis by a party who never touched the measurement — transfers directly to any evaluation contaminated by knowledge: a hiring process that strips names and demographics from resumes (blinding the screener to bias-inducing attributes), a peer review that conceals author identity (blinding the reviewer), a wine or product tasting that hides the brand (blinding the judge), and an algorithm-evaluation that withholds the ground-truth labels from the system under test — all are blinding recognized as the genus's bias-control reading in a new substrate.
This sourceShows that concealing a candidate's identity behind a screen (severing identity from the evaluator) reduces bias and raises the probability a woman is advanced and hired — blinding as evaluator-bias control.
- The experimental discipline of blinding — sever the treatment-assignment channel to anyone whose expectation could bias the measurement, and break the seal only at analysis by a party who never touched the measurement — transfers directly to any evaluation contaminated by knowledge: a hiring process that strips names and demographics from resumes (blinding the screener to bias-inducing attributes), a peer review that conceals author identity (blinding the reviewer), a wine or product tasting that hides the brand (blinding the judge), and an algorithm-evaluation that withholds the ground-truth labels from the system under test — all are blinding recognized as the genus's bias-control reading in a new substrate.
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