Originally Posted by
METARHIMS
...are on the operating table about to have your widow maker blockage removed, you are told your cardiac surgeon finished at the bottom of his class and has a troubled surgical history, but that's O.K. because people like him were under-represented?
That is not the point at all. The problem is not on the back end, but on the front end, when perfectly qualified applicants are denied entry into a profession that they would excel at. As to your example, as in getting your ATP, even the bottom guy passed a high bar, a minimum standard enforced by the FAA to be safe.
"Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback."
http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html