In an ideal world where people are all competent on the same axis, I would just subsample something similar to p(y) across my N candidates.
Why assume we live in a fantasy land?
But there should be some way to select people on their potential, that does not only account for personal connections (that are a good way, but fail in scenarios where merit is not very well defined), and CVs.
You assume that personal connections shouldn’t matter in your conclusion but you never looked into whether or not they matter for the effectiveness of what the people are supposed to do.
This is shallow and sounds to me like listing applause lights instead of really engaging with the issue at hand.
ChristianKI, I will try to explain better the points you raised:
In this case, fantasy land ~ simple toy model. Obviously the world is way more complex, but this is how I approach many problems, starting from naive experiments. Then, you could argue that it would have been better to use a better toy model, something it would be interesting to explore.
Never assumed personal connections should not matter (I wrote: “that does not only...”). On the contrary, I think personal connections are important. E.g. academia, were you get jobs with reference letters. This is a very good way to find competent people (e.g. in hard sciences). And so they are good towards what people are supposed to do. They can be useful for example for people with small CVs, but huge potential. But they are not the norm. My point was more about what to do when you do not have a clear defined scenario of merit, and personal connections mainly based on your social status are what matter.
Why assume we live in a fantasy land?
You assume that personal connections shouldn’t matter in your conclusion but you never looked into whether or not they matter for the effectiveness of what the people are supposed to do.
This is shallow and sounds to me like listing applause lights instead of really engaging with the issue at hand.
ChristianKI, I will try to explain better the points you raised:
In this case, fantasy land ~ simple toy model. Obviously the world is way more complex, but this is how I approach many problems, starting from naive experiments. Then, you could argue that it would have been better to use a better toy model, something it would be interesting to explore.
Never assumed personal connections should not matter (I wrote: “that does not only...”). On the contrary, I think personal connections are important. E.g. academia, were you get jobs with reference letters. This is a very good way to find competent people (e.g. in hard sciences). And so they are good towards what people are supposed to do. They can be useful for example for people with small CVs, but huge potential. But they are not the norm. My point was more about what to do when you do not have a clear defined scenario of merit, and personal connections mainly based on your social status are what matter.