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What kinds of institutions are you thinking of to reduce bias? Say, within an organization like a consultancy, university, or bureaucracy?

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Robin,

That is a tall order, but many such efforts will nevertheless have significant positive expected value.

Until very recently the development component would have been shooting fish in a barrel at Google, which has just adopted a radically more empirical and evidence-based hiring process:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007...

HR consulting companies like Mercer are able to capture significant value ($751 million in revenue in that case):http://www.mercerhr.com/http://www.mmc.com/news/pre...

Testing can be done cooperatively if one has a route to reach gatekeepers, and business process patents exist.

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