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Black-sounding names less likely to receive job call backs than white-sounding ones: Study
The Hill ^ | Apr 12, 2024 | CHEYANNE M. DANIELS

Posted on 04/13/2024 6:04:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

A new study shows that employers are less likely to call back applicants with Black-sounding names than those with white-sounding ones.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago recently filed 83,000 fake job applications for 11,000 entry-level positions at multiple Fortune 500 companies with names like Brad, Greg, Darnell, Lamar, Amanda, Kristen, Ebony and Latoya.

The study, “A Discrimination Report Card,” found that the white-sounding applicant names were favored up to 24 percent more than the likely Black applicants.

“It’s of course upsetting and discouraging that in the year 2023 and so on that this phenomenon persists and can be at the level that it can be detected with an experiment like ours,” Evan K. Rose, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report, said.

The 2021 study built upon research from a 2003 study, which found that applicants with names that sounded white got 50 percent more callbacks than those whose names sounded Black.

The new report also found that the percentage of discrimination varied among industries and went onto name companies with the worst rates. Auto dealers and car part retailers were the least likely to call back Black applicants.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: discrimination; names; normalization; racism
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As Walter Williams said we practice discrimination every day by life's choices.

So you have a strange name that matches you to a specific group you may be discriminated against, more so if you show up with face tatoos.

1 posted on 04/13/2024 6:04:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Bill O’Reilly once said that, if you have neck tattoos, you never have to wonder why you didn’t get the job.


2 posted on 04/13/2024 6:06:00 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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But yet most HR departments are dominated by black DIE hires.


3 posted on 04/13/2024 6:06:32 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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“Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago recently filed 83,000 fake job applications for 11,000 entry-level positions “
Your tax dollars at work


4 posted on 04/13/2024 6:07:25 AM PDT by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I had a black coworker whose mother named her Brittany so she wouldn’t be discriminated against because of her name on her resume. She got the job, all right, but she was terrible. Sat on her phone all day texting and face-timing, and when she did work, made tons of mistakes. Maybe focusing on names isn’t what everybody should be doing...


5 posted on 04/13/2024 6:07:51 AM PDT by Nea Wood ( )
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Once, at a company ‘holiday party’ (you can't say Christmas), I had the HR manager explain to me that there is a very simple and practical reason why this may be the case. It could have been the alcohol talking but what he said in essence was this: “It is very easy to fire a white person if the hire doesn't work out. But it is very complicated to fire a black person for the same reason.”
6 posted on 04/13/2024 6:08:13 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Top 60 Ghetto Black Names
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP3jfOkj4IA&ab_channel=KidMars216


7 posted on 04/13/2024 6:08:25 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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Always negative with this bunch. 50% qin 2003... 24% in 2023. That’s a huge improvement.


8 posted on 04/13/2024 6:08:41 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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It’s easier to fire a bad White employee than a black one


9 posted on 04/13/2024 6:09:42 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: brookwood

How else are you going to prove “systemic racism”?


10 posted on 04/13/2024 6:09:49 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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TV ads and other ads don’t sell products anymore they sell Skin Color


11 posted on 04/13/2024 6:10:03 AM PDT by butlerweave
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I stop reading when “black” is capitalized.


12 posted on 04/13/2024 6:10:24 AM PDT by bwest
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I wonder how many applicants named Adolf got interviews.


13 posted on 04/13/2024 6:11:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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From my time in mgt the name wasn't what killed a potential interview.

It was their resume.

Grammar. Punctuation. Misspelled words.

And my favorite....I have good work ethics.

And these were all supposed to be college grads.

14 posted on 04/13/2024 6:11:53 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Keep that black outrage hot! Can’t have them going thru life without their victim hood status in tip top condition! Given the infestation of colleges with Leftist hacks who even knows if the study is real or just more fake news for the narrative ?


15 posted on 04/13/2024 6:11:55 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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Mohammed Baraq Mustapha is tired of sitting by the phone, y’all.


16 posted on 04/13/2024 6:12:44 AM PDT by BipolarBob (The phone, the TV and the news of the world got in the house like a pigeon from hell)
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Who has time to do this crap?


17 posted on 04/13/2024 6:13:35 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Ya think? Add the preferred pronoun to Jarmarius Smiths resume and it’s not only tossed, but likely burned.


18 posted on 04/13/2024 6:14:10 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Vigilanteman

> “It is very easy to fire a white person if the hire doesn’t work out. But it is very complicated to fire a black person for the same reason.” <

Good point. On a related note, it’s also why companies are often reluctant to hire workers over 40. Fire a younger worker, and out he goes. Fire an older worker, and you might get slapped with an age discrimination lawsuit.


19 posted on 04/13/2024 6:14:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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The question was something like: “your boss tells you that the job requires 110%. We asked so many people what percentage they would give?”

The #1 answer was 90%.

But Steve Harvey had two contestants who answered 50% and 75%.

Want to guess their race and the result if their boss was watching?

It isn’t the name, it’s the perception that goes with it.


20 posted on 04/13/2024 6:16:22 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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