"Blind hiring made things worse (for trying to hire more women and minorities): It turns out that when recruiters had identifying information (knowing who was a woman and who was an ethnic minorty member), they actively discriminated in favour of women and minorities."

Wow, it sounds like "Exhibit A" in that phenomenon is a man named Justin Trudeau.

1. Does anybody remember the set of MPs he selected for his original Cabinet?

2. Would anyone like to step forward and try to say: "No, no, no, that was not an act of affirmative action, if Trudeau was blinded, given resumes that did not identify who was a white male, who was a female, and so on, the Cabinet choices would have been very similar in distribution".

3. Would anyone who stepped forward to take the bait in question 2, above, like to comment on how fast Trudeau realized he had to terminate multiple folks he had originally selected for higher positions, a profound embarrassment to his affirmative action goals?