want to ace an AI-based interview? add a bookshelf in the background
This is comedy gold. Turns out some digital phrenology software used for AI-aided interviewing will produce higher results for candidates who simply have a bookshelf as a background. As Daniel Bilar puts it: it’s the “Clever Hans” phenomenon, […] ‘spurious correlations, can occur when there is a feature in the data that is highly correlated with the correct outcome, but is not the cause for the answer being correct.’
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