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#1 Oct 03 2006 at 7:47 AM Rating: Good
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Sept. 21, 2006 — Studies of resumes have found that people with black-sounding names are less likely to get callbacks.

"20/20" put 22 pairs of names to the test, posting identical resumes except for the names at the top.

The resumes with the white-sounding names were actually downloaded 17 percent more often by job recruiters than the resumes with black-sounding names.

What are some of those names? Here's a list from the book "Freakonomics," by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, showing the top 20 whitest- and blackest-sounding girl and boy names.


20 "Whitest" Girl Names

Molly
Amy
Claire
Emily
Katie
Madeline
Katelyn
Emma
Abigail
Carly
Jenna
Heather
Katherine
Caitlin
Kaitlin
Holly
Allison
Kaitlyn
Hannah
Kathryn




20 "Blackest" Girl Names

Imani
Ebony
Shanice
Aaliyah
Precious
Nia
Deja
Diamond
Asia
Aliyah
Jada
Tierra
Tiara
Kiara
Jazmine
Jasmin
Jazmin
Jasmine
Alexus
Raven




20 "Whitest" Boy Names

Jake
Connor
Tanner
Wyatt
Cody
Dustin
Luke
Jack
Scott
Logan
Cole
Lucas
Bradley
Jacob
Garrett
Dylan
Maxwell
Hunter
Brett
Colin




20 "Blackest" Boy Names

DeShawn
DeAndre
Marquis
Darnell
Terrell
Malik
Trevon
Tyrone
Willie
Dominique
Demetrius
Reginald
Jamal
Maurice
Jalen
Darius
Xavier
Terrance
Andre
Darryl
At least most of these sound normal to me. It must be what I get for living in Chocolate City and then Chi-Town.
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#2 Oct 03 2006 at 7:55 AM Rating: Good
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Jazmine
Jasmin
Jazmin
Jasmine


Ok, ok, we get it.
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#3 Oct 03 2006 at 7:57 AM Rating: Decent
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Jasmin is "black"?

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#4 Oct 03 2006 at 8:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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20 "Blackest" Boy Names for Black Men Pretending to be a French Woman

Dominique
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#5 Oct 03 2006 at 8:25 AM Rating: Good
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Jasmin is "black"?
I know! Where TF do these people live?
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#6 Oct 03 2006 at 8:36 AM Rating: Good
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20 "Blackest" Boy Names

DeShawn
DeAndre
Marquis
Darnell
Terrell
Malik
Trevon
Tyrone
Willie
Dominique
Demetrius
Reginald
Jamal
Maurice
Jalen
Darius
Xavier
Terrance
Andre
Darryl


Those bastards left off the most obvious name: Totem! Smiley: grin
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#7 Oct 03 2006 at 8:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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Atomicflea wrote:
NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
Jasmin is "black"?
I know! Where TF do these people live?

You've seen Aladdin far too many times.
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#8 Oct 03 2006 at 8:44 AM Rating: Good
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Demea the Irrelevant wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
Jasmin is "black"?
I know! Where TF do these people live?

You've seen Aladdin far too many times.
Nah. I know a TON more hispanics named Jasmin than black chicks. JazmÃn was even a novela when I was growing up, and that was the title character's name.
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#9 Oct 03 2006 at 9:09 AM Rating: Excellent
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We have a Jasmine (Jasmin? Jhazmynn?) working here from Hawaii.

My friend's daughter is named Jasmin and they're white as the driven snow. Of course, he also named his son Xavian so he may have just been drawing Scrabble tiles out of a hat.
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#10 Oct 03 2006 at 9:12 AM Rating: Decent
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Demea the Irrelevant wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
Jasmin is "black"?
I know! Where TF do these people live?

You've seen Aladdin far too many times.


Jasmin search

Isn't Jasmine a white flower too? I'd think that calling a darky a white flower would be an insult to the color white.
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#11 Oct 03 2006 at 9:16 AM Rating: Excellent
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he also named his son Xavian


Is he a demon?
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#12 Oct 03 2006 at 9:25 AM Rating: Good
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Here's my analysis of the recent visitor names:

Ambrya, cracker woman
Atomicflea, Hispanic woman
CaptainOmelette, cracker boy
Danalog, poofy-haired cracker man
Elderon, biker cracker man
Eske, nerd cracker boy
Jophiel, earwig cracker man
Kronig, cracker
kylen, wigger cracker boy
MentalFrog, cracker man
NephthysWanderer, homosexual cracker man
Redjed, redneck cracker man
Samira, cracker woman
Smoggy, fat old man cracker
Walkerscrisps, English cracker man
Wint, italian cracker man
Zium, Black man
Anonymous Guests (19) - Black children or A.k.a in the 1950s, "nigglets"
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More people are killed annually by Robert Goulet look alike contests than die in a whale's *****
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More people are killed annually by Robert Goulet look alike contests than die in a whale's *****


Cite?
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#15 Oct 03 2006 at 11:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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Those bastards left off Tim! They shall suffer a thousand years of undending death for this atrocity!
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#16 Oct 03 2006 at 11:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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They also left off 'Jeff', The Official Allakhazam Whitebread Name.
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Those bastards left off Tim! They shall suffer a thousand years of undending death for this atrocity!


As a Black name? I have know 10 guys named Tim. Only two weren't black, one white and one asian.
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I think it might have something to do with being able to say the person's name as well. When I was in college I was on an alumni board and had to call them to update their information (address, tel #, etc...). I always dreaded calling people with foreign names for fear of pronouncing it wrong.


Shariqua Alarcquizarie is harder to pronounce than Holly Smith.

Also I would venture a guess that most of the people doing the highering at a lot of big businesses are either white or socialized white. Subconsciously a person is more likely to choose a candidate that is more like themselves.
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#19 Oct 03 2006 at 9:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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75% of those "black" names don't sound black to me at all. Hell, none of them do.

Now if they started signing resumes with nicknames, that'd be a dead giveaway. Actually, that's not an ethnic thing. They'd all sound like rappers then. I'm an equal opportunity hater. Black. White. Knock dead gorgeous female of any human ethnic background... I'll hate you the same.

The c is silent in rap.

Enough different spellings of Katelyn in that list? Sheesh.
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#20 Oct 04 2006 at 2:44 AM Rating: Decent
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You guys should read Freakonomics, really. It explains how rich parents often choose foreign or "rare" names for their kids. When these kids become sucessful and the names famous, it becomes common amongst poorer people, and rich people stop naming their kids like that. So the most popular names amongst rich parents become the most popular names amongst porrer parents after 20 years or so. The correlation is quite striking. So, in 20 years time, "Maddison" will be extremely popular as a name for kids of "poor" families.

The phenomenon is somewhat similar for "white" names and "black" names.

Anyway, read this book if you've got nothing better to do, and judging by your post count...
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