Understanding audit (resumé) studies
John B. Holbein is a mild mannered economist on X. 2 days ago he posted a long post on Lee Jussim's new review paper of racial discrimination in hiring. Jussim…
Whose benefit of the doubt?
In selection contexts (e.g. hiring), there is the notion of the benefit of the doubt. If you have some non-meritocratic desires for selection, and you find yourself with 2 otherwise…
Affirmative action at the Intelligence journal (Elsevier)
We recently published a big study looking at hiring bias for editorial boards. One could argue that hiring is perhaps a bit too strong a word, as I think these…
Large scale sex, race etc. discrimination studies: what do they show?
Given enough motivation, QRPs, biased reviewing and time, one can build an entire literature of studies proving anything. There's plenty of all of these to prove left-wing ideological beliefs (and…
Testing colorism using genomic data without phenotypic data
Normally, testing colorism or other causal models of why human racial traits have nonzero relationships to socioeconomic outcomes requires that one has the following data: Measure of racial ancestry Measures…