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Your own reply proves them very descriptive and close to reality: If ethnicity is interpreted by the reader as the best statistical signal (which conveys the bias of the reader, not of the resume) the "... actually meet the person... " is not going to happen. Reducing this to an information density problem explains nothing. Why do yo really don't like them?

Isn't that the point though? If you have a certain type of name you never get to meet the potential employer in person.

Yes the study is hows the effect of class, race and religious tradition effect recruitment not the name in its self.