"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

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Dutt and her colleagues studied more than 1,200 letters of recommendation for postdoctoral positions in geoscience.

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Dutt says they were not able to evaluate the actual scientific qualifications of the applicants using the data in the files.

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They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student.

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