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Blind auditions increased the probability that female musicians advanced from preliminary rounds and were hired by major orchestras. However, mandatory resume anonymization or hiding criminal history records generated mixed or negative unintended consequences in certain corporate screening contexts.
Changing an applicant name from an English-sounding name to an Indian, Pakistani, or Chinese name reduced interview callbacks by 4.4 percentage points (from 15.7% down to 11.3%), meaning English-named applicants were 39% more likely to receive a callback [13, 14, 17]. Resumes with Greek names experienced a statistically significant 4.0 percentage point reduction in callback rates compared to English names [13, 17, 20].
Resumes with English names received a 15.7% callback rate compared to 11.3% for resumes with Indian, Pakistani, or Chinese names (a 4.4 percentage point reduction, p < 0.01). Resumes with Greek names experienced a similar 4.0 percentage point reduction (11.8% callback rate, p < 0.05).