German, not US accents! Terrible article. I was suspicious about the lack of references. Note that the original research [1] (a working paper from three years

German, not US accents! Terrible article. I was suspicious about the lack of references. Note that the original research [1] (a working paper from three years ago) that these news items don't link to appears to be about German accents and dialects, at least wrt the headline 20% figure here. The recent study [2] also referred to is about American accents. It quotes the earlier paper (without reference or clarification it's a different country, which doesn't bode well for the quality of the research in the second paper), and the erroneous implication is presumably used without fact checking by the "journalists" involved in writing the OP here. [1] Summary https://www.nber.org/papers/w26719 https://www.nber.org/papers/w26719 Paper https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26719/w26719.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26719/w267... [2] https://writingtips.org/dialect-discrimination/ https://writingtips.org/dialect-discrimination/ ps. h/t @libraryatnight who posted the links earlier; I only just saw the comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101672