> There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more

> There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up. IIRC, that study finding didn't survive the replication crisis - the most recent resume studies didn't find bias against "non-white-sounding" names. An optimistic interpretation of the discrepancy is that the earlier studies had picked low-class "black-sounding" names. It's hard to do this kind of study cleanly since names don't merely signify race, they also signify other things like socioeconomic status and age so to do it right you'd need to carefully validate that the specific names used don't differ in implications other than race; I don't think that has really been done yet. (more here: http://datacolada.org/51 http://datacolada.org/51 )