Why Your Name Matters

Re:Why Your Name Matters by yetanotherphd on Saturday December 21, 2013 @03:59AM (#6946226)

I really don't like these Resume studies where they send out a bunch of resumes with different names.

A resume can be an extremely noisy signal, and the best statistical signal might be the ethnicity implicit in the name. When you actually meet the person, you get a lot more information, and the employer might rely less on the person's race as a source of information/bias.

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Re:Why Your Name Matters by route66 on Saturday December 21, 2013 @04:48AM (#6946297)

Your own reply proves them very descriptive and close to reality: If ethnicity is interpreted by the reader as the best statistical signal (which conveys the bias of the reader, not of the resume) the "... actually meet the person... " is not going to happen. Reducing this to an information density problem explains nothing. Why do yo really don't like them?

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Re:Why Your Name Matters by lemonberry on Saturday December 21, 2013 @04:45AM (#6946292)

Isn't that the point though? If you have a certain type of name you never get to meet the potential employer in person.

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Re:Why Your Name Matters by walshemj on Saturday December 21, 2013 @08:36AM (#6946617)

Yes the study is hows the effect of class, race and religious tradition effect recruitment not the name in its self.

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