SAT Reading & Writing · Rhetorical Synthesis
A student has researched résumé audit studies and compiled the following notes: - Audit studies send matched résumés to employers that…
A student has researched résumé audit studies and compiled the following notes:
- Audit studies send matched résumés to employers that differ mainly in the applicant's name.
- Some studies find that callback rates differ depending on names associated with particular racial or ethnic groups.
- The résumés in these studies are designed to hold many other credentials constant between applicants.
- A name can signal multiple things simultaneously, not necessarily race or ethnicity alone.
- Results from these studies vary depending on the occupation studied and when the study was conducted.
- A callback is an early stage of the hiring process and does not measure whether someone was ultimately hired.
The student wants to clarify a limitation of using callback rates as the outcome measure in these studies. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- Audit studies send matched résumés to employers that differ mainly in the applicant's name.
- Some studies find that callback rates differ depending on names associated with particular racial or ethnic groups.
- The résumés in these studies are designed to hold many other credentials constant between applicants.
- A name can signal multiple things simultaneously, not necessarily race or ethnicity alone.
- Results from these studies vary depending on the occupation studied and when the study was conducted.
- A callback is an early stage of the hiring process and does not measure whether someone was ultimately hired.
The student wants to clarify a limitation of using callback rates as the outcome measure in these studies. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Answer and explanation
Answer: C: Because a callback is an early stage of the hiring process, callback rate differences do not by themselves measure whether an applicant was ultimately hired.
The goal specifically requires naming a limitation of the callback-rate measure itself, and C is the only choice that directly states what callback rate does and does not capture. A describes the study design generally. B describes a methodological control, not a limitation of the outcome measure. D raises a genuine interpretive complexity about names but doesn't address the callback-as-outcome-measure limitation specifically.
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