Some findings are so well replicated that to doubt them marks you as a crank. The trouble isn't that they're false. It's that they answer a narrow question and are read as a verdict on the world.
Crossbencher · 18 July 2026
The research on hiring discrimination is about as solid as social science ever gets. It's also being asked to prove something it never looked at.
The method is clean. Send out matched job applications, identical but for a name that signals race, and count the callbacks. The gap is real. It has been found for decades, and it survives replication across many studies and several countries: within Western labour markets, the majority disfavours the minority, again and again. This is good work answering the question it set, and anyone who waves it away hasn't read it.
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