The Far-Reaching Impacts of Racism and Bias

In 2010 a group of researchers conducted an experiment in which they pretended to be students, emailing 6,500 professors in nearly 90 academic fields at 259 universities with a request to discuss research before applying for a doctoral program. The text of the messages was identical, but the sender ’s name was varied to signal race and gender, such as Brad Anderson, Latoya Brown, and Mei Chen.
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