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2. Discrimination because of what correlates with race is racism. You cant be that dumb to actually type that and think no one would notice.
This point needs to be isolated and hooted down because it is so damn ridiculous.
Factor A. Factor B correlates with Factor A. Therefore Factor B is the same as Factor A.
That's insane.
Blacks tend to have lower education levels than whites. Hiring based on education level, by your standards, is racism.
Hey stupid you forgot to look at the link. The resumes were equal.
The 50 percent gap in callback rates is statistically very significant, Bertrand and Mullainathan note in Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination (NBER Working Paper No. 9873). It indicates that a white name yields as many more callbacks as an additional eight years of experience. Race, the authors add, also affects the reward to having a better resume. Whites with higher quality resumes received 30 percent more callbacks than whites with lower quality resumes. But the positive impact of a better resume for those with Africa-American names was much smaller.
"While one may have expected that improved credentials may alleviate employers' fear that African-American applicants are deficient in some unobservable skills, this is not the case in our data," the authors write. "Discrimination therefore appears to bite twice, making it harder not only for African-Americans to find a job but also to improve their employability."