This must be the standard to be taken seriously. Anybody can wax on about how to avoid systemic biases, but it's my understanding that the research shows studying biases doesn't remove them.
Is there any alternative theory or method about how to avoid systematic bias other than being aware of systematic bias?
Also comment, I think the studies of awareness bias involved very simple phenomena. That may or may not carry-over to more complex processes.
practicing actually avoiding it..
one can be aware but still not listen to the 'voice of objectivity' -
personal preferences very often override morals/ethics/etc, and we are very good at rationalizing.
I don’t think they do. We really have very limited control over it. But I think that, just like you can become a professional athlete in just one sport (as opposed to many sports), you could also become very good at avoiding a specific type of bias.
EX1: If you only add people to your team that pass your interview process you never test if it’s actually effective.
If you replace that with say a score card to rate people on various metrics then compare actual preformace with your metrics then you have some feedback to improve the system.
EX2: For a one time event like a music / art / writing contest. Remove the bias inducing elements by just judging the output.
Don't see why implicit biases should be any harder to combat than any other bias you see in a scientific field, and scientists all have to learn and work hard to combat them to avoid results that don't hold up to scrutiny. I assume engineers are similar, you probably have bad habits coming in or poor intuition about how things should fit together. By example and practice you train your intuition to align with reality.
Looks like evolutionary psychology with a dash of environmental psychology.
Interesting quote from the abstract:
“Intelligence is naturally defined as behavior that increases the likelihood of reproductive success, and bounds on rationality are determined by physiological and environmental constraints.”