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Lawlight on 14 February 2017
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VGPolyglot said:
Lawlight said:

So the overal callback rate was 16.7% but whitened black resumes has a 25.5% callback rate and whitened Asian resumes have 21%? So the results are even higher than the average? So whitened ethnic resumes get more callback than the average resume, which would be a "white" resume? How does that work? Especially when they cannot hide the Asian ethnicity with the surname?

And on top of that, the ethnic resumes show political involvements whereas the whitened ones show charities?

Seems like they had a result in mind and worked towards it. But it still could not hide that western Asians have a higher callback rate than whites.

They whiten their names so they have a higher chance of being called back, which th studies show is a measure that does increase their rate. If that isn't proof of systemic racism, I don't know what is. Also, how do Asians have a higher callback rate than whites? The average is 11.5 for Asians and 10% for blacks, while the average in total is 16.7%, which means that whites have to be higher.

No, they did not just whiten their names. They also changed from their involvement in political activities. So, what's the average callback for whites involved in political activities vs those that are involved? Also, based on the studies, does this mean that white people add an Asian surname they would increase their chances by 5%? Seems like it based on the findings.