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In Providence Rhode Island, the city paper submitted dozens of résumé pairs to jobs, differing only by obviously-classed name (like William Strathmore vs Tyrone Jackson), no cover letters. The Tyrone Jackson ones got no calls back, whereas the Thomas Strathmore ones got about a 50% callback rate.


Citation needed! If this is the study you refer to, you got the general idea right, but just about every detail wrong.

http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.htm...




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