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What is the evidence for this?
by foldr 3y ago
What is the evidence for this?
- HDThoreaun 3y agohttps://www.npr.org/2016/07/19/486571633/are-ban-the-box-laws-helping-job-applicants-with-criminal-histories https://www.npr.org/2016/07/19/486571633/are-ban-the-box-law...
- foldr 3y agoThe article is talking about checks for criminal history in the context of employment. Any leap you make to the effects of laws banning entirely different kinds of background checks in an entirely different context is...well, a leap. On top of that, the article reports on the results of a single behavioral study, which while interesting, is hardly conclusive. A few minutes on Google scholar is enough to find other papers casting doubt on its results: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b69fbe78f51306042d1d4e6/t/6614331fe3e11706278113ff/1712599843026/BTB_BurtonWasser2024.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b69fbe78f51306042d1d...
- HDThoreaun 3y agoI disagree. Thats not a leap at all. When you ban background checks people become racist, doesnt matter what the context is.
- foldr 3y agoThe study you point to doesn't even seem to be accurate (see the link I added as an edit to my previous comment), so even if you make the logical leap, the factual premise isn't there.