{"id":101972,"date":"2018-12-04T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-we-carried-out-our-survey-of-flatshare-bias\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:05:56","slug":"how-we-carried-out-our-survey-of-flatshare-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-we-carried-out-our-survey-of-flatshare-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"How we carried out our survey of flatshare bias"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nInquiries from a person with a Muslim name about flatshare ads receive fewer positive responses. Here is how we reached the findingsTo test whether people with names associated with a specific religion were treated differently when applying for a house or flatshare, the Guardian sent almost 1,900 requests to properties listed in five locations \u2013 London, Aberdeen, Devon, Sunderland and Leicester \u2013 within a two-day period in the last week of October.The wording of the two requests were different but similar in tone and length. To avoid any possibility of being rejected on a first-come-first-served basis, the requests were sent within a few minutes of one another and were alternated, meaning that in 50% of cases \u201cDavid\u201d made first contact and in 50% \u201cMuhammad\u201d did. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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