{"id":2728,"date":"2002-12-16T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2002-12-16T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2002-12-16T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2002-12-16T17:39:55","slug":"hold-the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"HOLD THE PHONE…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmmm. Just read OpinionJournal – Best of the Web Today<\/a>, who comments on the NY Times story on race and hiring I comment on below:<\/p>\n

Employers were more likely to ask the “applicants” with “white names” in for an interview than those with the “black names.” But something’s wrong here. A chart that accompanies the print version of the Times story but doesn’t appear online shows the frequency with which people with “white” names and “black” names got called for interviews:
\n“White” names
\nKristen: 13.6%
\nCarrie: 13.1%
\nLaurie: 10.8%
\nMeredith: 10.6%
\nSarah: 9.8%
\nAllison: 9.4%
\nJill: 9.3%
\nAnne: 9.0%
\nEmily: 8.3%
\n“Black” names
\nEbony: 10.5%
\nLatonya: 9.1%
\nKenya: 9.1%
\nLatoya: 8.8%
\nTanisha: 6.3%
\nLakisha: 5.5%
\nTamika: 5.4%
\nKeisha: 3.8%
\nAisha: 2.2%
\nNow, what’s “white” about names like Laurie and Jill? Wouldn’t a fair comparison have included some odd-sounding white names, like Dweezil or Moon Unit? And if employers discriminate against people with “black” names, how come Latonyas and Latoyas were more likely to get called back than Emilys were?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh-oh…better go to the actual statistics before I go making claims about this…
\n[Update:<\/b> did a quick run of the numbers through Excel, and got a statistically significant difference between the two sets, so there is something<\/u> going on. I’ve got a friend who’s trying to get both the ‘shooting’ research below and this as original papers.]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmmm. Just read OpinionJournal – Best of the Web Today, who comments on the NY Times story on race and hiring I comment on below: Employers were more likely to ask the “applicants” with “white names” in for an interview than those with the “black names.” But something’s wrong here. A chart that accompanies the […]<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}