Establishes that the accuracy numbers are not an academic curiosity, which is why the honest-reading skills in this sub-domain have stakes. Matched-guise telephone calls using different dialects to the same landlords produced sharply different rates of appointments granted (Purnell, Idsardi and Baugh 1999, Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18, 10-30), and measured speech patterns are associated with substantial wage differences in labour-market data (Grogger 2011, Journal of Human Resources 46(1) 1-25). Stated as documented findings about listener behaviour and outcomes — the node makes no claim about any group's speakers.
Linguistic profiling is the identification of a speaker's social characteristics from accent and dialect alone, and the page documents what listeners then do with that inference. It reports the Purne…