The Subtlety of Bias

TheNew York Timesis reporting onan interesting studyabout the perniciousness of gender bias. The authors of the studycrafted a resume of an “above average but not spectacular” graduate student in the natural sciences, and then sent the resume to a number of different faculty who run labs at different top-notch research institutions. The faculty were asked to grade the resume on a 1-7 scale, and then were asked a number of questions about how much time they might be willing to put in to help m...