CV and mad panic behaviour

[PaulP]

Stories of people's personal experiences, much like an episode of Insight, are all completely legit, and they certainly have their place, but they don't change the narrative, they don't change the bigger picture, and they don't change historical fact.

This is simply confirmation bias. People have an answer in their mind, and they go into the world looking and as soon as they find the answer that they've already concluded upon, they stop looking.

Promoting women ahead of men where all other factors are equal is indeed a type of bias, but it's a small and necessary bias to correct a much bigger pre-existing bias.