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Originally Posted by SebC
These days, I would guess that another probable outcome is that non-white applicant gets hired because the hiring manager wants diversity, fears appearing racist, etc.
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Not true. A 2004 study shows that people with black sounding names receive 50% less callbacks than white sounding:
scholar.harvard.edu/mullainathan/files/emilygreg.pdf
Diversity is pushed because people need to be pushed in order to overcome their automatic preferences.