There was a similar post a few days ago where someone did this but instead of changing their name they changed their gender (female names got significantly more responses). That post got flagged and this post is in the frontpage. Interesting.
Any chance you can find the link to the dead post? I am curious to see it.
PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name
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#92Snapshot of the tweet since (at least for me) it seems to be private now: https://web.archive.org/web/20220918142648/https://twitter.c...
It is still visible on Nitter instances (e.g. https://nitter.priv.pw/Mohamad_IPS/status/157121403293739417...)
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#93There was a similar post a few days ago where someone did this but instead of changing their name they changed their gender (female names got significantly more responses). That post got flagged and this post is in the frontpage. Interesting.
Do you know why the other post was flagged?
It was a reddit thread with a baity title on a guaranteed flamewar topic.
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#94No post body was provided.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually worst than I made out in the title. The responses he got under his original name were "almost all negative", not actual invitations. While almost all the response under his pseudonym were positive, some getting out of their way to pull him in.
I was curious what her percentage of overlap was between the 17 rejects and 54 accepts (or even the 87 responses) but that was not mentioned.
NOTE: Not sure why my auto-correct changed "the" to "her"
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#96There was a similar post a few days ago where someone did this but instead of changing their name they changed their gender (female names got significantly more responses). That post got flagged and this post is in the frontpage. Interesting.
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#97There was a similar post a few days ago where someone did this but instead of changing their name they changed their gender (female names got significantly more responses). That post got flagged and this post is in the frontpage. Interesting.
Not commenting on that post because I didn’t see it but just noting. Some people support affirmative action. There are arguments that can be used that are somewhat convincing. Correcting generational feedback loops is hard and may require more than just blind indifference. Personally I think affirmative action can go too far, but it is very much a live issue in politics for good reason. Meanwhile there aren’t many wh…
> Meanwhile there aren’t many who would say discrimination against
> people from the Middle East is good
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically only religious persons names their kids Mohammed, those who quit the religion will not put the burden of that name on their kids. I suspect the same thing about Jesus even in the Spanish world, Christianity is very popular in the Spanish world as well. But to be fair I have met way more Muslims than I have met Christians so I am not as sure about it, but Mohammed is for sure a religious name meaning they ha…
> Basically only religious persons names their kids Mohammed, those who quit the religion will not put the burden of that name on their kids. That might hold true for first names (even though I am not entirely sure), but when it comes to last names, it is a complete crapshoot. I changed my last name when I was 14 (entirely for unrelated reasons), but the old one I had contained a form of "Mohammed" in it. Without giv…
Shot in the dark: your father's side is from a an area known for a strategic mountain range?
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#99Re: PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name
#100Not a professor, but I used to be a lecturer and I still get some spam looking email application from foreign students. I am sure this is detrimental to real applicant.