Soumitra Shukla
@soumitrashukla9
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Incoming Research Fellow at Harvard Business School and Consultant at The Burning Glass Institute (@theBGInstitute)
Joined December 2021
1/ Recent moves by US colleges to bring back the SAT highlight a major tension: do “objective” metrics really reduce bias, or do “subjective” assessments (like “fit”) risk perpetuating class barriers? My research on class discrimination at elite firms sheds light. 🧵
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It would be really nice if this site had less hate toward Indians and Asians generally. Some of the stuff people say to me in DMs and comments are just wild.
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RT @emollick: A note on this: We have enough evidence from controlled studies that it is likely smart to ask a frontier model for a second….
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Saw Jurassic World Rebirth. The scientist was way too woke for me. Too bad dinosaurs didn’t eat him in the end. Cool movie tho.
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RT @tracewoodgrains: pretty frustrating to see this pop up in a guest review on ACX. "trust the literature" leads people into a confusing t….
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RT @soumitrashukla9: 🎉Just clicked on this program to see if it was up and it turns out our new paper "Interviews" got into the NBER Summer….
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RT @soumitrashukla9: 1/10 Why don't minority traits vanish in the "melting pot"? Bisin & Verdier (QJE 2000) show that purposeful parental d….
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RT @soumitrashukla9: One of the key issues this story has revealed is that many Americans, particularly those in online academic "progressi….
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RT @stianwestlake: It’s not by any means the first piece to make this argument (it’s a core @thomasforth point, developed in the @annastans….
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RT @JacobAShell: Mamdani’s handled the story wrong. He should have shrugged it off as “yeah I was 17 and it was a different time. In hindsi….
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RT @soumitrashukla9: Signed, sealed, and delivered. Just two weeks until I formally join the awesome HBS community!
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RT @ash_craig: This is not my experience with Americans. Though to be fair, all the Americans I know are economists.
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PS - I also think this approach is best suited to build coalitions between the right and the left on this topic.
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RT @J2dubyas: I don't think "academics" should discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, politics, etc when making hiring and….
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This article aligns with my thinking on DEI. Current approaches are incomplete without socioeconomic diversity. A person of color from an elite prep school background may have had more advantages than a white person from rural poverty. Our classification systems need more
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RT @DjokerNole: 100th Wimbledon win. 1dem00. 🫶🏼 . Zadovoljstvo je igrati sa sjajnim igračem i prijateljem iz Srbije kao i uvek @MioKecmano….
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RT @garrytan: When you examine the list of nonprofits and academics that want to remove advanced math from classrooms and water down the st….
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RT @emmylobz: “Wimbledon is a dream tournament” wait really Novak??? It’s your dream tournament? I had no idea!.
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