White Privilege?

[BmorePat87]

(07-11-2018, 07:07 PM)Beaker Wrote: What you are claiming as a scientific study can not actually be considered one via the scientific method. There are too many independent variables to reach any valid conclusion. There would need to be only one independent variable....such as the race of the applicant. All other variables would have to be the same for this to be considered a controlled experiment and therefore valid scientifically.

The applicants would all have to be the same age, the same sex, have identical, not similar resumes, be trained to give the same answers to questions and have identical criminal records. This investigation can provide a glimpse into the proposed hypothesis, but it is still invalid scientifically.

They're all the same age, have similar looks and dispositions (granted this is relative to the researchers), and were trained to respond to questions the same way.

Only two resumes were used between the four interviewees. Whether black or white, the two people posing as the non criminal applicants for the week had the same resume and the people posing as the criminals had the same resume. In order to match work experience with their 18 month sentences, the non criminal resume had 18 months of work experience all outside prison while the criminal resume had 6 in prison and 12 out of prison. So the issue actually comes into comparing the resumes between criminal status, not race. 

So I think all of the things you asked to be the same were.