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.
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My wife mentioned to me that she knew a black person who had one of these ghetto names, but personality-wise, was not a ghetto person. As soon as that person became of adult age, they officially changed their name to something non-ghetto.
It is common rhetoric..
But the two men weren’t on about that. One felt that half assed was ok fine.
BTW how does this study identify what “sounds” like a “black name”...without sounding racist?
I was in 3rd grade in 1970, so I must be light-years ahead of today’s college grads by now.
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What about Mohammeds I through IX? Do they get the same treatment?
were asian or hispanic names in that data set???
Another classic on this theme.
Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
While taking attendance, inner-city substitute teacher Mr. Garvey has trouble adjusting to a classroom full of middle-class white students.
yep
-PJ
One problem is that black-sounding names are too trivial and usually show a bit of illiteracy in the named one’s background.
I am 77 and have changed employers quickly and easily ̀5 times in the last 6 years. I’ve not been fired in forty+ years.
And VaGeena. Those two names were not so rare as one might think around here 25 years ago. One does not encounter them anymore here. I suspect the named ones have all got their names changed or or are in prison. One unique name - schoolteacher wife had Neosynephrine Nyquil Roulhac as a student many years ago.
I substitute teach in our local high school district, so I have seen hundreds of names on roll sheets, so I am aware of trends in naming. Amazingly, John, Joe, Richard, Larry, and Charles almost never appear among boy’s names. When I was growing up, Linda was the most widespread girl’s name, and there was at least one Linda in every one of my classes from K through grad school. Now that name has disappeared, as has Lisa, Lynn, Nannette and Ann.
Jared, Dylan and Joshua are some of the boy’s names that are now popular, yet were unknown when I was growing up. However, I am turned off by some of the new girl’s names, like Madison, which sounds like a boy’s name, Brooklyn, which sounds like a nickname for a boxer or a wrestler, and Aspen, which sounds like a painkiller.
I call them Scrabble names and when I encounter a particularly nutty combination of sounds and letters I call him “Scrabble.” One fellow chuckled.
The most obnoxious woman I ever knew was Shareeka, a BK shift manager. Her name fit well her style of discourse.
A 1970s third grader is hopelessly ignorant compared to a 1950s second grader. Even then the dumbing down of curricula had been ongoing for a decade.
No mention of resumes or cv.
If I’m paid by the hour, I expect to be paid for every hour. Spent most of my adult life in the military and worked 60 hour weeks as normal for most of it. That was fine by me. I sometimes worked 80+ hours a week - and that was part of the job. Or maybe part of the profession, because the military is not just a job. Not the work I did.
BTW, after retiring I did do taxes for a few years. I finally made a point of saying I only was willing to work 20 hours a week part time. When I worked by 4th 50 hour week in a row, I quit. They struggled to find a replacement but I made it VERY clear before the tax season that I was only going to work part-time. They agreed, then didn’t keep their end of the bargain.
Part of me enjoyed doing taxes but not 50+ hours week after week. Doing it RIGHT isn’t easy. Knowing what questions to ask and finding every legal tax break is tough. The client deserves the very best and it gets hard when you’ve gone 10+ hours of nonstop work.
A simple but elegant reason. In the 70’s I had a friend who was just 20 years old, but a dept manager in a mall. He hired a black guy to fold clothes, straighten up and schmooze and sell items. They guy was a disaster. He fired him after 1 week. The guy came back with “friends” and talked to the Manager of the entire mall, and threatened lawsuits etc. My buddy quit his job, because he got no support. They black guy was lazy, and he was stealing clothing. So there have been reasons to avoid hiring blacks for 54 years at least.
Ever wonder why all Post office jobs are staffed by minorities? Then you must be a redneck.
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