> Perhaps the entire "tech" industry needs to learn that lesson. Audit studies are conducted all the time where researchers lie to people and waste their time.

> Perhaps the entire "tech" industry needs to learn that lesson. Audit studies are conducted all the time where researchers lie to people and waste their time. > Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study > We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level “interim” job affect the likelihood that experienced college- educated females applying for an administrative support job receive a callback from a potential employer. First, the results show no relationship between callback rates and the duration of unemployment. Second, workers age 50 and older are significantly less likely to receive a callback. Third, taking an interim job significantly reduces the likelihood of receiving a callback. Finally, employers who have higher callback rates respond less to observable differences across workers in determining whom to call back. We interpret these results in the context of a model of employer learning about applicant quality http://www.econ.ucla.edu/tvwachter/papers/audit_study_FarberSilvermanVonWachter.pdf http://www.econ.ucla.edu/tvwachter/papers/audit_study_Farber...