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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by peoplewindow on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @05:00AM (#16428289)
Yes, such studies do occur and they do show bias against white men.

Typically these are studies that are trying to find bias against women, by anonymising hiring processes. Replacing names on CVs, even voice masking. What they discover instead is that anonymising hiring makes outcomes better for men not women, and then the studies and the anonymisation is canned.

Like here:

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas...

But there are others. There were some studies in Australia on this. You can search for them quite easily.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by scarface74 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:50AM (#16429042)
The link you posted explicitly says Though these trends weren’t statistically significant, I am mentioning them because they were unexpected and definitely something to watch for as we collect more data.
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