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Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ... by michaelt on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:53AM (#26967196)
Well, the experimenters could have combined their corpus of job candidates describing themselves with a bunch of recordings of actors giving the same descriptions in different accents.

Then each hiring manager could have been presented with a different subset of that pool, with both resume and recording.

A multivariate regression would then reveal the relative impacts of class, being an actor, and the different self-descriptions.

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