it might not work as explicitly as people knowingly paying attention to it. It could be implicitly present in something else (“culture fit”)
Yes, that sounds plausible to me as well. I did not mention those because I found it much harder to think of ways to tell when those dynamics are actually in play.
If I understand this correctly:
FWIW, I think this concern is important, but we need to be very cautious about it. Since one could always go “yeah, your results say nothing like this is going on, but the real mechanism is even more indirect”.
I think you are gesturing at the same issue?
I imagine that the fields like fairness & bias have to encounter this a lot, so they might be some insights.
It makes sense to me that the implicit pathways for these dynamics would be an area of interest to the fields of fairness and bias. But I would not expect them to have any better tools for identifying causes and mechanisms than anyone else[1]. What kinds of insights would you expect those fields to offer?
Yes, that sounds plausible to me as well. I did not mention those because I found it much harder to think of ways to tell when those dynamics are actually in play.
If I understand this correctly:
I think you are gesturing at the same issue?
It makes sense to me that the implicit pathways for these dynamics would be an area of interest to the fields of fairness and bias. But I would not expect them to have any better tools for identifying causes and mechanisms than anyone else[1]. What kinds of insights would you expect those fields to offer?
To be clear, I have only a superficial awareness of the fields of fairness and bias.