{"id":2733,"date":"2002-12-18T18:32:16","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T18:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2002-12-18T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2002-12-18T18:32:16","slug":"mo2-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"MO’^2 RACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I scanned the research study<\/a> on hiring today.
\nPersonally, I\u0092d have designed it slightly differently, to track two other dimensions: the effect of names that are obviously ethnic but non-African American (Juan, Ashish, Yuri, Isao and Wei come to mind immediately) as well as names that are fairly obviously white but \u0091non-traditional\u0092 (Rainbow, Sunshine, Redwood).
\nThe fact that the investigators were only looking along the white-African American axis and ignored these other effects leaves their study subject to criticism (which it seems to be receiving in bulk \u0085 I almost said \u0091in spades\u0092, then decided to save myself the hate mail.).
\nFirst I should qualify my comments by the fact that I have a hard time with most social science \u0091research\u0092. Coming from a physical sciences background, I find that many, if not most of the research I\u0092ve seen in the social sciences is just bad science, which simply sets out to document the prejudices of the researcher (Bellesiles, anyone?). So I have a knee-jerk reaction \u0085 call it a prejudice \u0085 when I first read about studies like this.
\nI tend to see them as interesting anecdotes, and in some ways find it frustrating that pseudo-quantitative research gets standing above meaningful personal anecdote.
\nHaving stood on a chair and ranted for a bit, I\u0092ll also defend the study as a useful<\/u> anecdote.
\nI\u0092ll defend it from two points of view.
\nThe first is my own, as someone who has from time to time been involved in \u0091mass market\u0092 hiring and has seen for himself that certain resumes are shoved to the side for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their content.
\nThe second is that we have to look on the study as reflecting what really happens<\/u> when we take a pool of African American applicants\u0085LaToyas and Muhammeds\u0085real people\u0085and try and understand what they see in the world.
\nAnd the reality is that for a million reasons, they face barriers that others don\u0092t.
\nSome of the barriers are self-imposed.
\nBut some of them aren\u0092t.
\nAnd whether those barriers mean it\u0092s 50%<\/u> harder to get an interview or 5%<\/u> , that\u0092s just damn wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I scanned the research study on hiring today. Personally, I\u0092d have designed it slightly differently, to track two other dimensions: the effect of names that are obviously ethnic but non-African American (Juan, Ashish, Yuri, Isao and Wei come to mind immediately) as well as names that are fairly obviously white but \u0091non-traditional\u0092 (Rainbow, Sunshine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}