Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 1999/02

From: Michael Cogswell <Michael_Cogswell@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 5 Feb 1999 02:13:29 -0000 Issue 1028
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:32:40 -0500

If the candidate is behind a screen and known only by number, how does the
evaluator know the race and/or gender?

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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:02:55 EST
From: DHmorgan@-----.com
Subject: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras

Ah, but here's the problem. They've done studies that show that even in
double blind situations, evaluators will rank the performance of people of
their race and gender HIGHER than other races and genders. The examples I'm
thinking of have to do with writing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it
weren't
the same with music. As long as you have humans in the equation, bias will
creep in. It's so subtly embedded in everything we do that we don't even
notice it. What to do?

Truly,
Don

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