A large 2004 University of Chicago study submitted thousands of resumes to a huge variety of employers, and all the resumes were completely identical - except for the applicant's name. It could be Emily or Brendan or Lakisha or Jamal, and Lakisha and Jamal got 50% fewer callbacks than Emily and Brendan, despite having literally identical resumes. Hank, I'm pretty sure that's about race.

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