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(06-27-2018, 10:24 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I've never seen interviews where they can only interview one person.  That would be called a hiring. And nowhere have i ever seen 9 of 10.

He's not representing the studies well.

There is one rather famous study that is a little over a decade old. Of course, last year there was a study published that provided different evidence. The implications aren't certain at this point as these are two data sets and we need more to really dig into this further. There was an article about this that I read that did a good job of digging into it. I'll see if I still have it saved in a research folder somewhere.

Edit 1: Here is the abstract from the older study (Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination, 2004):

Quote:We study race in the labor market by sending fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers. To manipulate perceived race, resumes are randomly assigned African-American- or White-sounding names. White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. Callbacks are also more responsive to resume quality for White names than for African-American ones. The racial gap is uniform across occupation, industry, and employer size. We also find little evidence that employers are inferring social class from the names. Differential treatment by race still appears to still be prominent in the U. S. labor market.

Edit 2: Abstract from more recent study (Race and gender effects on employer interest in job applicants: new evidence from a resume field experiment, 2015):

Quote:We sent nearly 9000 fictitious resumes to advertisements for job openings in seven major cities in the United States across six occupational categories. We randomly assigned names to the resumes that convey race and gender but for which a strong socio-economic connotation is not implicated. We find little evidence of systematic employer preferences for applicants from particular race and gender groups.

Still looking for the article, now realizing this was longer ago than I thought.

Edit 3: Finally found the article! http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bias-hiring-0504-biz-20160503-story.html