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Re:How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016) by amgin3 on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:17PM (#13958693)
Everyone is up in arms about female discrimination, when really it is the lower-class men who are discriminated against the most.
Re:How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016) by emodendroket on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:34PM (#13958751)
I'm going to take the outre position that both gender and class discrimination are bad.
Re:How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016) by clarebear on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:40PM (#13958772)
The differences in callback rates were not statistically different between the women and the lower class men. The only statistically significant different was higher class men and everyone else.
Re:How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016) by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:49PM (#13958813)
I didn't do the stats on it, but just looking at the graph in the article 5 times as many lower class women received callbacks than lower class men. What was the p-value on that?
Re:How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016) by PeterisP on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:11PM (#14005200)
Instead of "5 times as many" look as "a difference of 4 samples" - in an environment where the expected sampling noise is something like +/- 4.

"Statistically insignificant" means just that - this data is not sufficient to conclusively say if lower class women receive less callbacks than lower class men; maybe they do, maybe they don't.

Re:How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016) by rayiner on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:31PM (#13958742)
Does that criticism make sense given that the title of the article and opening paragraphs talk about the class disparity, and only get to the major gender disparity in the middle of the article?
Re:How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016) by tristor on Saturday March 25, 2017 @11:43PM (#13959007)
I'm not the person you're replying to, so I can't say what they were thinking when they wrote their comment. I'm choosing though to read their comment as referring to the larger social context, rather than this specific article. I would note however that this article is classified under the category "Gender" in the Harvard Business Review.