Marcos Nazareth Gallo - Three Minute Thesis - 4/25/2023

so that's my full name 28 characters um yeah it's very Latin we'd like our names to be long and it was kind of funny when I lived in China where people usually have names with three characters and the professors would look at this and get shocked and I would just be like present because I knew I knew it was me but what about when your name

gather data from dozens of studies that send resumes to employers which unbeknownst to them these resumes are actually fabricated to test their discrimination and these resumes are identical with one key difference some of them carry a name that is stereotypical of a minoritized group and others the name from the majority group and it's no surprise especially to those in from for minoritized groups that the lakeishas

and tyrones and alejandros actually get fewer callback invitations what is striking is that I'm actually able to predict the likelihood of somebody getting a call back by asking independent Raiders one question how warm and how competent does this name seem to the average American War meaning good-natured and friendly competent meaning uh capable and efficient and for every bump in warmth the chances of somebody getting hired

or somebody getting a callback increase so if Tyrone was seeing just as warm as Greg the tyrones would receive 33 higher chances of being interviewed and people in minoritized groups know about this they've learned to whiten their names whiten their speech some really feel the threat of conforming to these stereotypes creating undue stress and burden so we must do something awareness is a good start but

hiring practices should be more transparent and perhaps group information should be removed from initial stages of hiring effectively uh Intergroup contact and experience should reduce and change stereotypes so that whether your name is 28 or three characters we have the same chance of achieving our goals foreign