I’m confused why you don’t think randomisation would be faster than producing a complete ranking of candidates, but I also don’t currently have reason to think the ranking is a limiting factor, so unless we get information to the contrary this isn’t the main point of contention.
More importantly, I think we disagree on the last sentence. I think snap judgements between candidates that don’t clearly differ dramatically in suitability are likely to be not significantly better than, and possibly worse than, chance.
You don’t have to provide a complete ranking of candidates. You only have to decide which candidates to accept and which not to in the bucket that you would prefer to randomise. And it seems to me that such decisions could in principle be made extremely quickly, particularly since you must already have assimilated some information about the candidates in order to put them in the right bucket (though speed probably affects quality adversely; but I still think some signal will remain).
I’m confused why you don’t think randomisation would be faster than producing a complete ranking of candidates, but I also don’t currently have reason to think the ranking is a limiting factor, so unless we get information to the contrary this isn’t the main point of contention.
More importantly, I think we disagree on the last sentence. I think snap judgements between candidates that don’t clearly differ dramatically in suitability are likely to be not significantly better than, and possibly worse than, chance.
You don’t have to provide a complete ranking of candidates. You only have to decide which candidates to accept and which not to in the bucket that you would prefer to randomise. And it seems to me that such decisions could in principle be made extremely quickly, particularly since you must already have assimilated some information about the candidates in order to put them in the right bucket (though speed probably affects quality adversely; but I still think some signal will remain).