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and sometimes job-- senior job searches involve the faculty
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sitting in-- around in a room and tossing out names
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and we use these names as a basis for further discussion.
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"Hey, I wonder--What about that person? That person does great work."
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What we do now in the psychology department
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is we make a special point of trying to get names from disadvantaged groups,
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not with an eye towards an affirmative action policy
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but rather because there's a lot of evidence suggesting that
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people who are just as qualified don't come to mind
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unless you make some sort of procedure to do it.
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Here's another example. A lot of journals do blind reviewing now
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because of the evidence I talked about before regarding sexual stereotypes,