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

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD09-SL-C24--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

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

LD-09 v0.1

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; fixture fixtures/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".