re: When applying for a job, do you provide the voluntary demographic information?

Just put down you are a minority. You will be automatically given the job due to your privilege.

I don't think that it would make any difference. Just based off of inference I think that information would just be used to see what the demographics of the applicants are. Then in the interview process they can compare that to the demographics of the interviewees and hires. Either way they are going to find out what race you are before the decision to hire you is made.

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Idea being that he could trick someone into thinking that a woman could be that educated or qualified.

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Fat chance.

I think that there is a chance that checking a minority when you aren't one is actually making your chances of getting hired worse. Consider if they collect this information to show that there is no bias in their hiring process by trying to demonstrate that the demographics of interviewees and hires match the demographics of applicants. By artificially driving up the proportion of minorities in the applicants you are making it look like the employer needs to hire even more minorities in order to fix any bias problems that they may have. Thus making it less likely that they hire you.

I'm not saying this is how it works, but this at least makes much more systematic sense than what the silly people looking for an excuse to be offended in here are saying.

I do. I'm a proud honkey.

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Either way they are going to find out what race you are before the decision to hire you is made.

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Not if you show up to the interview claiming to be a burn victim.