I was thinking the same thing, and then I read:
"With institutional bias in hiring now proven by multiple social scientists..."
Is anyone familiar with these studies? This is a crucial piece of information for the article.
"With institutional bias in hiring now proven by multiple social scientists..."
Is anyone familiar with these studies? This is a crucial piece of information for the article.
> Despite the confounded nature of merit and social status within measurable prestige, the observed hierarchies are sufficiently steep that attributing their structure to differences in merit alone seems implausible.
It's not the strongest argument, but I'm having trouble coming up with a way to separate it out. You could try to measure the subsequent productivity of professors once hired, but it's likely that scientific publishing and citation also has a prestige bias, so the confounder is back.