WEEK 14 · PILLAR 2 · INCLUSIVE HIRING & BIAS MITIGATION
Affinity Bias
WHAT IT IS
Affinity bias is the pull toward candidates who remind you of yourself — same school, same hobbies, same way of talking. Rapport feels like a signal of fit. It is mostly a signal of similarity, and similarity doesn't predict performance.
WHY IT MATTERS
Every hire who is ‘like us’ makes the next lookalike hire feel safer. The team narrows, and nobody notices the strong candidates who never clicked.
Inside the full lesson
- • 3 practical rules to use in your next interview
- • Signal-vs-noise lab: 2 real interview moments, weak vs. strong interviewer
- • What goes wrong when teams skip it
- • 3 realistic scenarios to test your judgement, with XP and streaks