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Comment by magaman69 | Hacker News Reader

it is interesting that asians have a lower placement than whites according to this article. part of being a good engineer is having excellent writing skills for documentation and approvals - im guessing whites have a higher placement rate due to their stronger communication skills.

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I think you're really stretching and trying to find an alternative answer, where the right answer is staring you in the face.

I'm sure this study has accounted for the fact that these Asians students are British Citizens and have spent their entire lives in Britain and also has English as their Primary language.

These Engineering Recruiters have innate bias against ethnic minority students.

The real question would is, How do we combat this?

no, they did not control for these variables you mention. Most interviews start with a phone screen. I am betting most asians dont pass the phone screen since the recruiters have difficulty understanding the asian candidates over the phone.

Again the assumption made by the article is that these are British ethnic minorities who would have a British Accent since they would have lived there. They are not talking about non-British nationals.

Here is another article that is anecdotal: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/27/ethnic...

'Asians' in British English means people from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

No in Britain, Asian is usually referred to people from the Indian Subcontinent. Not from the middle east

Why do you think asians have worse communication/writing skills than whites?

because english is their native language and they dont have an accent.

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