Jenna Is Conducting a Study on Gender Bias in Hiring

question 34

Multiple Choice

Jenna is conducting a study on gender bias in hiring.She has recruited participants to evaluate job applications.What is an effective way to manipulate the independent variable?

• A)She can put common women's names on all highly qualified candidate's applications and put common men's names on unqualified applications.
• B)She can randomly put common women's names and common men's names on similarly qualified applications.
• C)She can tell the participants to ignore the gender of the person who wrote the application.
• D)She can delete all indicators of gender from all applications.

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