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Stephen Colbert: ‘If you like puppies, you’re not going to like Kristi Noem’
Late-night hosts discuss the South Dakota governor and possible Trump VP pick revealing she killed her family dog Late-night hosts talk about Kristi Noem’s puppy-killing admission and Donald Trump’s day off from court. Continue reading
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Resumes With 'Black' Names Like 'Lakisha' or 'Jamal' Less Likely To Get Callback, Research
In 2021, economists from the University of California Berkeley and the University of Chicago conducted a study that found that job applicants with traditionally Black-sounding names were called back for an interview 10 per cent less than their white counterparts.The study developed from research conducted by professors at the University of Chicago two decades ago. According to the university, the 2003 findings exposed that resumes with white-sounding names were 50% more likely to get hired than...
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Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child
Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adultsThe eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought.Led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University’s department of psychology, the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely...