The actual truth is that the interview panel consists of human beings. Human beings identify with people who share similar views and experiences. The experienced and older pilots are the ones involved involved in hiring. As long as the older generation are predominantly military there will be a strong bias towards people with military background. Rationalizations to support that bias will sometimes be based in reality and other times be just that: rationalizations.


We as pilots often mistake the world outside our cockpit to be based on facts, numbers, and statistics as we've been trained to do.