> "bias isn’t helpful ... Let that determine what to measure"
Determining what counts as "bias" is itself a subjective activity. People who grow up in different cultures have different baselines for what factors matter the most and what factors they consider to be overvalued, undervalued, inappropriately accounted for, and so on. Not just different countries, but different subcultures within the same country (like, my cousins from the farm see a lot of things in society as biased toward big cities, which I never considered because I've lived in big cities for essentially my entire life.)
"start with the premise that bias isn't helpful" is, by the way, also not a measurable goal, which IMO supports what I'm saying. Knowing how to conceptualize a problem well (of which "eliminate bias" is a small subset) isn't something you can objectively measure, but it's something that will impact your objective measures down the line.
Determining what counts as "bias" is itself a subjective activity. People who grow up in different cultures have different baselines for what factors matter the most and what factors they consider to be overvalued, undervalued, inappropriately accounted for, and so on. Not just different countries, but different subcultures within the same country (like, my cousins from the farm see a lot of things in society as biased toward big cities, which I never considered because I've lived in big cities for essentially my entire life.)
"start with the premise that bias isn't helpful" is, by the way, also not a measurable goal, which IMO supports what I'm saying. Knowing how to conceptualize a problem well (of which "eliminate bias" is a small subset) isn't something you can objectively measure, but it's something that will impact your objective measures down the line.