On: Sounding black hurts your income; so does sounding southern

[utnick]

After browsing the paper... it seems his sample was 300 random kids 19-25 average age 22, the avg income in the study was 11$ an hour...and the difference in wage from sounding black to not sounding black was 8%... unless I am missing something this study sounds very meaningless due to the small sample size of the subgroups of the sample, and the pointlessness of comparing 22 year old wages.

[pchristensen → utnick]

8% of $11 meaning that you make $0.88 less an hour? Wow, earth shattering.

[hugh → pchristensen]

When you're only making $10.12 an hour, it probably is.

[qwph → pchristensen]

Assuming 40 hours a week, an extra $0.88 an hour works out at $152.53 a month.