One Place Where Social Scientists Have Found Significant Discrimination Against

Multiple Choice

One place where social scientists have found significant discrimination against blacks is in entry-level jobs and low-skilled positions. In a job applicant experiment:

A) having a criminal record made no difference regardless of assumed racial background.
B) the discrimination was less when both black and white applicants had criminal records.
C) the applicant's job history was more important than racial differences.
D) applicants with white-sounding names received many more callbacks than a person with a more African American name.