Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 12:10 AM UTC

9wzYQbTYsAIc wrote: post #8

vmception wrote: post #3

I think US-bias is more so class bias than race bias and this comes with a 99% correlation to racial discrimination due to the half millenium of directly ensuring certain races could not access the economy or capital or literacy. Racial discrimination also occurs. A lot of support for racial equality is lost because it is too reductive and invalidates the experience of potential allies in the majority power who exper…

There once was a study where they eloquently demonstrated this by putting the same white actor into two situations: one had him lay down acting like he was dying from a hear attack in front of Wall Street wearing a suit. The other had him doing the same thing but wearing worn out sports clothing. They found that people responded more favorably to the actor when he appeared to be of the same social class.

Post by renewiltord » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 12:21 AM UTC

beaner wrote: post #75

fishtoaster wrote: post #35

Key bit here: > Devoid of any information about the candidates’ actual qualifications, the hiring managers judged the candidates from higher social classes as more likely to be competent for the job, and a better fit for it than the applicants from lower social classes. Moreover, they assigned the applicants from higher social classes more lucrative salaries and signing bonuses than the candidates with lower social s…

Yeah, the point taken from the study is really designed to stoke tension when it is not really reflective of anything meaningful when it comes to job applicant filtering. It reminds me of a learning from one of Thomas Sowell's books. There were communities that thought that background checks for employees in certain industries were racially discriminating by their very nature. They moved to ban them. Race disparities…

Post by klyrs » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 12:49 AM UTC

flavius29663 wrote: post #81

metiscus wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's work through a hypothetical. Say that drug use is evenly distributed regardless of race across a group of people. If orange people get searched more frequently, even if every search is equally justified, then the number of orange people being prosecuted for drug infractions would be disproportionate. Note: I am not making a statement about the propriety of this, but merely working through an example of applied…

I see the problem, but I fail to see what you're suggesting? Are we supposed to let criminals go free? Don't deal drugs, is it that hard? If black people wouldn't deal drugs, they wouldn't be targeted by police officers. Think of the east Asians, they are discriminated and mocked maybe even more than black people, but they are less likely to commit crimes, so police doesn't target them.

Post by paperwasp42 » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 12:54 AM UTC

Post by bjourne » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 1:00 AM UTC

flavius29663 wrote: post #85

lucian1900 wrote: post #79

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Black peoples in the US are far more likely to be summarily executed when interacting with police.

not when accounting for a higher level of crime. In fact, whites are more than half of police victims, while causing way less than half of violent crimes. There are 32 million traffic stops each year. In 2019 the police shot 14 unarmed black Americans. I think every death is unforgivable, but let's not pretend that going to work and back as a black person you're putting your life at risk when meeting the police. Ther…