Researchers sent 5000 resumes in response to job ads that appeared in the Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune. The resumes were identical except that 2500 of them had “white sounding” first names, such as Brett and Emily, whereas the other 2500 had “black sounding” names such as Tamika and Rasheed. The resumes of the first type elicited 250 responses and the resumes of the second type only 167 responses (these numbers are very consistent with information that appeared in a Jan. 15, 2003, report by the Associated Press). Does this data strongly suggest that a resume with a “black” name is less likely to result in a response than is a resume with a “white” name?
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