Managing The Unconscious Bias
One of my colleagues was interviewing candidates for a role and I was part of the panel. While interviewing one of the candidates, it emerged that he was from the same Engineering Institute as my colleague though they were from batches about a decade apart. I found a significant change in the body language of my colleague. The questions that he was asking seemed to be directed towards what the candidate was comfortable with. I realised that this was an instance of affinity bias – one of the types of biases that we unconsciously possess.
