Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech
Key bit here:<p>&gt; 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 status.<p>So while I don&#x27;t fault the study here, it&#x27;s not clear that this really demonstrates what the title says (&quot;shows bias in hiring&quot;).  It shows bias if you tell a hiring manager they need to make a hiring decision <i>based on no actual interviewing</i>.  It&#x27;d be like if a candidate came in for an interview, made 60 seconds of small talk, and then the hiring manager had to immediately make an offer.  And, yeah, I&#x27;m not surprised that in a situation like that, hiring managers make decisions based on the slimmest of signals, amplifying class-based biases.  Would they have way less bias if given any real signal about a candidate&#x27;s fitness for a job?  That&#x27;s not shown one way or another according to this press release.<p>That said, I generally <i>do</i> believe the thesis here (that speech patterns influence class perceptions which significantly bias hiring), even if I&#x27;m not convinced that this particular study shows that.