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This has been studied more formally as well, here is one paper from 2004: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mullainathan/files/emilygreg.pdf http://scholar.harvard.edu

This has been studied more formally as well, here is one paper from 2004: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mullainathan/files/emilygreg.pdf http://scholar.harvard.edu/mullainathan/files/emilygreg.pdf They found only a 50% increase in call-backs for "white sounding" names, still I think this story is quite credible.

LargeWu 13y ago
"only" a 50% increase?
- jeremyjh 13y ago
  In the submitted article the difference was much larger; she got 9 call-backs with the white name versus 0 with her ethnic name.
  - finnw 13y ago
    "Ethnic" is not a synomym of "non-white."
    - jeremyjh 13y ago
      I didn't say it was. The author of the submitted article used this term to describe her name though.