White Men Without Degrees Receive the Lowest Ratings from Large Language Models

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arXiv:2610.00185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: White men without an undergraduate degree receive the lowest average ratings among eight gender-race-education groups in controlled large-language-model evaluations of credit, hiring, and rental applications. We conduct full-factorial vignette experiments with 18 models from 12 developer groups, varying gender, race, age, citizenship, and education while holding stated financial or occupational circumstances constant within each setting. Each mod