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if you believe the vast majority of people don't ever discriminate, then, setting aside the issue of systemic discrimination, by all means cite some studies to that effect.

I can cite studies that show significant differences for gendered names, for african american names, and, just because this is aging we are talking about here, here's just one study on job applicants of different ages https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10724770

That's not to mention things like implicit association tests that show evidence of unconscious bias.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/



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