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un unemployed black woman
pretends to be white
and the number of job offers she gets go way up this is an interesting article
and techie filled by your lawn despite v
you on this fight is a black woman she was unemployed two years she applied to
over three hundred open jobs in insurance which is where she worked for
ten years definitely her area of expertise and experience
she did not get a single response you went back to college
finisher degree applied again
wasn't getting any responses to the job she applied to on monster dot com
so monster has diver sity questionnaire
which ask you about your race you can decline to to disclose that
and they say it will not jeopardize your chances of getting a job it's just kind
of for informational purposes you can't skip the question
but you can say declined to identify so
beeline despite he thought maybe that's hurting me
she goes into her monster dot com profile and she changes it to declined
to identify
isn't hearing back from anybody
she hears
she thinks of another idea she goes back and she creates a fake applicant named
bianca white
fills in the identical employment history identical resume i gather
coeducation as her real self you'll on despite e
changes the phone number from her home phone to her cell phone so that it can't
be linked back to her original profile
and then she put the white
on the diver sity questionnaire
phone call same day
emails packed same day she gets all whole bunch of uh... of of job offers in
the field of insurance in one week she receive nine phone calls as bianca white
and nine as african-american yolanda spivey
and she received seventy emails as bianca white
and only too
as they wonder spivey both prefer commission on the positions that require
her to move out of state
uh...
what you think about this i'm not surprised when i first read about this
is it
mia there's a lot of
individuals who want to hire specifically why people are not
surprised in any way right but this is really kind of like this is this is an
a_b_ test
ino in in a compelling way that really shows it's the same credentials he has
changed her name and race
and of course it's probably uh...
even more possible that if she pretended to be a man that that might have gone up
to because we know that there is still a lot of uh...
that stuff going on the inequality in that department
i actually had a similar situation which is i messed around with this when i was
in
undergrad i think i was a junior something like that and in mid-summer
summer junior year
i started applying to a bunch of different jobs and i saw this diverse
city question now according to the u_s_ census i'm hispanic right i'm born in
argentina
my first language is spanish uh... even though my background is eastern european
jewish and i i'm completely identical genetically as to what i would be at my
family came straight to the u_s_ instead of to argentina
according to the census an hispanic and i did some testing
i made a profile where i put white
and i made a profile where i said hispanic and identified myself as a
diverse city candidate
and is a very anecdotal i don't
pretend to say it was any kind of scientific study
but the results mirrored what you'll understand the had here uh... the wheat
which is that there was more interest more call backs and more interviews
under my white david pacman
uh... profile
so again
completely anecdotal but interesting that you wanted that this
yeah i think the results of
pretty much be for themselves