Claim LD09-SL-C24 (v1.0)
In field data from one hiring-software vendor covering 3 million applicants, 4% of applicants who applied to 10 positions were recommended for rejection by all of them, a rate the authors report as higher than expected by chance.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (SOURCE_POSITION) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH SOURCE-POSITION QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (ABSTRACT_ONLY) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Effects of other vendors, or that the rejections were wrong
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Bommasani, Bana, Creel, Jurafsky & Liang, “Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring,” FAccT 2026, arXiv:2605.27371
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (as printed: “Peer-reviewed conference paper”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (affiliations not verifiable from the abstract), using data supplied by one hiring-software vendor
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-15
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD09-SL-C24.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Bommasani, Bana, Creel, Jurafsky & Liang, “Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring,” FAccT 2026, arXiv:2605.27371” → SRC-SL-BOMMASANI-ET-AL-HIRING-FACCT-2026--v1.0 — Bommasani, Bana, Creel, Jurafsky & Liang, “Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring,” FAccT 2026, arXiv:2605.27371; class PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD09-SL-C24 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | In field data from one hiring-software vendor covering 3 million applicants, 4% of applicants who applied to 10 positions were recommended for rejection by all of them, a rate the authors report as higher than expected by chance. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | C — Systems, decisions and shared knowledge | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Bommasani, Bana, Creel, Jurafsky & Liang, “Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring,” FAccT 2026, arXiv:2605.27371 | source_ids: SRC-SL-BOMMASANI-ET-AL-HIRING-FACCT-2026 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed conference paper | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (affiliations not verifiable from the abstract), using data supplied by one hiring-software vendor | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Algorithmic screening of job applications, apparently in the United States (inferred from the abstract’s use of U.S. discrimination standards) | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Analysis of a vendor-provided field dataset | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 3 million applicants and 4 million applications | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Screening algorithms built by one vendor | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | A chance baseline | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | 4% of applicants applying to 10 positions recommended for rejection from all; 14.74% of applications by Asian applicants and 25.87% by Black applicants went to positions with adverse impact on their group | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Whether shared screening systems reject the same people across employers | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Effects of other vendors, or that the rejections were wrong | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: ABSTRACT_ONLY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Official abstract only; one vendor, unnamed in the abstract; the chance baseline is the kind that LD09-SL-C26 questions; the US setting is inferred, not stated | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Baseline dependence: LD09-SL-C26 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US (inferred) / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | 14.74% of applications by Asian applicants and 25.87% by Black applicants went to positions with adverse impact on their group | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-09, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Comparable data from several vendors, with difficulty-adjusted baselines | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH SOURCE-POSITION QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: SOURCE_POSITION |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-09 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 0798be4df31f999a6daf585182d7f0be512239abfef18757527d300d4b5e5493.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C24 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-09 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-09 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 24 — LD09-SL-C24” SHA-256
68911972e6cb1bb1645145a343526ff84d67eb48a92c9118f9327ed5e9cc10cb; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD09-SL-C24--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C24 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-09 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C24 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-09 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-09 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-BOMMASANI-ET-AL-HIRING-FACCT-2026--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 24 — LD09-SL-C24 cites "Bommasani, Bana, Creel, Jurafsky & Liang, “Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring,” FAccT 2026, arXiv:2605.27371"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-BOMMASANI-ET-AL-HIRING-FACCT-2026--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Bommasani, Bana, Creel, Jurafsky & Liang, “Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring,” FAccT 2026, arXiv:2605.27371".