Biases against Black-sounding first names can lead to discrimination in hiring

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Biases against Black-sounding first names can lead to discrimination in hiring
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Because names are among the first things you learn about someone, they can influence first impressions.

who oppose affirmative action discriminated more than other people against job candidates with distinctly Black names, whether or not they had to make rushed decisions.To conduct this study, we recruited 1,500 people from all 50 U.S. states in 2022 to participate in an online experiment on, a survey platform. The group was nationally representative in terms of race and ethnicity, age and gender.

We found that the names of workers perceived as Black, such as Shanice or Terell, were more likely to elicit negative presumptions, such as being less educated, productive, trustworthy and reliable, than people with either white-sounding names, such as Melanie or Adam, or racially ambiguous names, such as Krystal or Jackson.

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