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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a little boy named Orion Skywalker.  I still shake my head every time I see him. [b] I recently had a friend in M&A consulting who was lamenting the names of candidates he was receiving resumes for - basically, the gist of the conversation was that there was no way he count hire someone named "Insert Atypical Odd Name" and have them work on the Carlyle Group account.[/b]  It certainly gave me food for thought and helped knock a few names off our potential names list. [/quote]

Somebody in another company, who has fewer prejudices, will hire that great candidate named [Atypical Odd Name] and beat the pants off your friend and his clients.

Excluding people from your group of job candidates because you think their name is weird is just stupid.[/quote]

Happens to racial and religious minorities all the time.[/quote]

Agreed.  And it's stupid then too. If you are in HR and you do this, your employer should fire you for incompetence.[/quote]

Re-read what the other PP said about "unconscious bias." Everyone does it.[/quote]

Oh, well, if everyone does it, then it must be ok.

No, wait...[/quote]

I've bolded the part in my post where I said it was okay because everyone does it. No, wait....
You do it, too. [i]Unconsciously[/i]. It doesn't make it "okay," it makes you human to sort people into categories.[/quote]

And the way to defeat these unconscious biases is not to give everyone the same normal, boring names.  It's to call out shitty biases whenever you see them (and name your kid whatever the hell you want and raise them to be a good person).[/quote]

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