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@melb2 i disagree, the study was about names specicially, taking out the names would defeat the purpose. also, owning my own business, if i got a resume or application and the name field said applicant, rather than the persons name i wont read any further. if their hiding their name, what else are they hiding. i wont descriminate against names if the resume is as good as others, but i do want to know their name.
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There are so many things that appear on a resume besides just names that gives clues to the persons identity. and while I think that /part/ of that experiment may have /some/ validity (and very little IMHO, but I would like to see /all/ the results) , it doesn't seem to include other "races" or "genders" or "age".
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There are so many things that appear on a resume besides just names that gives clues to the persons identity. and while I think that /part/ of that experiment may have /some/ validity (and very little IMHO, but I would like to see /all/ the results) , it doesn't seem to include other "races" or "genders" or "age".
and while those things are essentially illegal to ask on an employment application, it's pretty easy to figure out from a resume.
I don't think that the HR people who made those choices are necessarily "racist" or are attempting to discriminate. perhaps, if they had put the resumes out as "candidate number one, or two" it might tell us more.
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It seems kind of silly that they used a female black name against a male white name. They muddled gender with their results when hey were investigating race.
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There's an easy fix here: Don't give your kid a name that doesn't look good on a resume. And if you already have one of those names, change it.
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I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that this is automatically a racial thing.
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I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that this is automatically a racial thing.
It could very well merely be a "goofy name" thing.
I suspect a white woman with the name "Bunni" or a white male named "Bocephus" would probably experience the same discriminatory treatment.
Like it or not, everything is judged.
Keep it in mind, next time you feel the urge to name your next child "Stargazer".
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"Prior to the study, Mullainathan said human service managers anticipated a reverse discrimination gap. After receiving the results, he noted that the managers acknowledged the problem and wondered how to rectify it. Many of the firms listed themselves as equal opportunity employers in the ads.
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"Prior to the study, Mullainathan said human service managers anticipated a reverse discrimination gap. After receiving the results, he noted that the managers acknowledged the problem and wondered how to rectify it. Many of the firms listed themselves as equal opportunity employers in the ads.
"It doesn't seem like the problem is that they're sitting there going, "'Well, I really don't want Tamika here,'" he said. "The problem seems to be that they read through hundreds of resumés very fast and try to form an impression of the person from the resumé. And subconsciously, if you see the name Tamika it's going to bleed into your overall impression, it's going to cue all the negative stereotypes you might have implicitly ... of African-Americans, and I think that's hard to challenge."
I wonder what the gap is between male and female applicants.
and this is not "evidence that black people will be poor"
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I heard once that male sounding names were more likely to get call backs aswell. Perhaps black people should start giving their kids goofy male names like Todd, Kyle and Tucker regardless of gender.
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