Awesome. In the Netherlands there have been quite a few studies where they'll send exactly the same resume and application to different companies but change the name, and they'll see Mohammed invited a lot less often than say John, or whatever, despite again exactly the same application.
On HackerNews, iirc, there was an article a while ago about someone writing a script to automatically respond to housing ads, as he had a lot of trouble finding an apartment somewhere in Germany, Munich I believe. Ah I found it. So what he'd do is send out applications where he could just change out the name and see which ones get the best response. Here's the quote I wanted to highlight:
> The conclusion from this little study, is that a girl with an italian name, gets an 90% answer rate, a guy with an arab name and is younger than 25 gets, 1% answer rate. The master of all, is the young munich guy who is around 25
As someone with an Arab name, this can get a little bit depressing :p And while I try to stay away from conjuring up victimization plots against me (I'd absolutely hate to go through life feeling as if my ethnicity is holding me back and that any trouble finding an apartment or a job must be at least in part related to this), I can't help but say that it feels familiar to personal experiences, as much as I hate to say it about myself.
So what you're doing is absolutely awesome :) Thank you.
On HackerNews, iirc, there was an article a while ago about someone writing a script to automatically respond to housing ads, as he had a lot of trouble finding an apartment somewhere in Germany, Munich I believe. Ah I found it. So what he'd do is send out applications where he could just change out the name and see which ones get the best response. Here's the quote I wanted to highlight:
> The conclusion from this little study, is that a girl with an italian name, gets an 90% answer rate, a guy with an arab name and is younger than 25 gets, 1% answer rate. The master of all, is the young munich guy who is around 25
As someone with an Arab name, this can get a little bit depressing :p And while I try to stay away from conjuring up victimization plots against me (I'd absolutely hate to go through life feeling as if my ethnicity is holding me back and that any trouble finding an apartment or a job must be at least in part related to this), I can't help but say that it feels familiar to personal experiences, as much as I hate to say it about myself.
So what you're doing is absolutely awesome :) Thank you.