Katherine Milkman of the University of Pennsylvania along with two other colleagues decided to test for bias by sending out fake emails to 6,548 professors at 259 institutions. They used student names that had connotations to a particular gender and ethnicity and emailed professors in hopes of arranging a meeting to talk about available research opportunities before applying to a Ph.D. program. Brad Anderson typically sounds like a white male, while Gabriela Rodriguez sounds like a Hispanic female. They found that across 10 different fields, professors are much more likely to respond to a student who sounds like a white male than to a student who sounds like a female or minority. Aside from the name, the words in the email were exactly the same. Fine Arts is the only field that gave a preference to women/minorities. Tack för tipset Tina-Mari.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 11:00:01 +0000
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