Ellen Langer published a series of studies in which participants viewed people as normal when told they were currently in this process, but as “different from most people” when told they were cancer or psychiatric patients. Nisbett and Wilson used contrasting videos of a college professor participating in this process with a European accent acting warm and friendly and cold and distant to study the halo effect. Betrand and Mullainathan highlighted a racial bias in this process in a study that randomly attached names like (*) Emily and Greg and Lakisha and Jamal to otherwise standard materials. Demographic information is omitted in a “blind” form of this process to remove bias and promote diversity. For 10 points, name this process that an unemployed person goes through to join the workforce. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 97.75 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 85.83 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 129.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 89.75 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 99.25 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 106.20 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 110.40 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 84.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.33 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 129.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 86.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 46 | 15 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | Waterloo Basic | 57 | 15 |
| Jacob Rosenberg | Innovation Academy C | Johns Creek | 67 | -5 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | SIUE | 67 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Tufts A | 69 | -5 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton | Warwick A | 69 | -5 |
| Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | Old and Young | 70 | 15 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Bristol | 79 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 83 | 15 |
| Rivera Rivera | Valencia | UCF A | 84 | 15 |
| Coby Tran | Paddington in Peru | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 85 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Illinois Orange | 85 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Purdue A | 85 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 85 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | McGill A | 85 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | Jason et al. | Claremont | 85 | 10 |
| Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 87 | 10 |
| Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Innovation Academy B | 87 | 10 |
| Will Alston | SGV Ventures | U[C]SD | 87 | 10 |
| Michael Agadis | Pitt | Maryland | 87 | -5 |
| Nitin Rao | Harvard | Brandeis B | 88 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst | Boston College A | 88 | 10 |
| Kai McFarland | BU | Bowdoin C | 89 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 89 | 10 |
| Sophie Torres | UCF B | UF B | 89 | 10 |
| Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Aspidistra | 89 | 10 |
| Jonathan Haimowitz | ALCU | Anderson et al. | 89 | 10 |
| James Mangraviti | Boston College B | Clark Wilson | 89 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | The cult of SGA | 91 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF C | USF | 91 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech A | Milton | 91 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | LSE B | 91 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | bingy academy | 91 | 10 |
| Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Purdue B | 92 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 94 | 10 |
| Derek Fino | Clark House | Brandeis A | 94 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina | Virginia Tech C | 95 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman | Squidward Community College | 95 | -5 |
| Biniam Alaro | UF A | Florida Tech | 95 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Lambert | 95 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick C | Imperial A | 95 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Tufts B | 102 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Penn State | 103 | -5 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Warwick B | 108 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Georgia Tech C | 109 | -5 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Metropolitan A | 109 | 10 |
| Madeline Straus | Tufts A | MIT | 112 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 112 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Carleton A | 112 | -5 |
| Issac Ojutomori | Tufts B | Yale | 122 | 10 |
| Kylan Powell | Squidward Community College | Truman | 129 | 10 |
| Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Innovation Academy C | 129 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech C | Mississippi State | 129 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago A | 129 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Cambridge B | 129 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Southampton | 129 | 10 |
| Michael Soskil | Penn State | RIT | 129 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton A | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 129 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland | Pitt | 129 | 10 |