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Question 1

Summarize her experiment:

Answer 1

Matched pairs of the same race

one with record and one without

Question 2

What did she find:

Answer 2

Criminal record had a huge impact on outcome

Direct effects of race and racial discrimination (black man with no conviction was worse then white man freshly out of prison)

Question 3

What is the cause?

Answer 3

Employers don’t harbor conscious bias towards black applicants, much of what happens is an unconscious process

try select best person for job, but their biases are weighed in.

Question 4

Is this study reliable?

Answer 4

Big issue is cuz it’s in a single city

Did another study in new york

Found similar conclusions in new york