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Do you have a source for this? Because as the founder of Facebook is jewish, Facebook might not be a representative sample. I.e. it's expected, since a large pa

by deogeo 8y ago

Do you have a source for this? Because as the founder of Facebook is jewish, Facebook might not be a representative sample. I.e. it's expected, since a large part of his social circle (family, friends) are also jewish.

ng12 8y ago
I kind of don't want to touch this issue for obvious reasons, but a while ago I read that 20-25% of Ivy League students are Jewish [1]. It makes sense that they'd be over-represented in education-driven professions. 1. https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-college-and-other-facts-about-Jews-at-American-colleges-437701 https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...
devmunchies 8y ago
Although i think this is normal behavior, it seems like a double standard. Wouldn't a white euorpean be inclined to do same thing (hire people similar to themselves)? I hope that as tech expands to all continents and becomes a truly globally distributed sector, we'll stop caring about race at a specific company since tech will competitive and diverse on a global scale. (e.g. a firm in India competing with a firm in Germany competing with a firm in Brazil)
jlawson 8y ago
It's not just Facebook. Jews are massively over-represented at the highest levels of society in most fields. <2% of population in America, <0.25% globally. But: 20% of Nobel prize winners 10-25% of Harvard students (depending on source and school) 33% of US supreme court (3/9) 6% of US Congress 8% of US Senate There are equally or more extreme numbers for things like movie studio leadership, rech company leadership, newsmakers and opinion writers, actors, comedians, etc. I just don't have time to look up the figures atm. To be clear, I'm not saying there's anything wrong or right about this; it's just an easily-verifiable physical fact.
- ebiggs 8y ago
  On a world scale this is interesting: Jews are only 0.2% of the World’s population, but 17.46% of the World’s billionaires. Thus their representation is 8,730% of their population share. Of course any non-idiot would see this as simply an interesting fact worthy of researching out how being a jew correlates with success in a merit-based competency hierarchy... and not a reason to hate jews for conspiring to take over the world. While we're at it, we should probably also chill out on white men in general too.

by deogeo 8y ago

ng12 8y ago

I kind of don't want to touch this issue for obvious reasons, but a while ago I read that 20-25% of Ivy League students are Jewish [1]. It makes sense that they'd be over-represented in education-driven professions. 1. https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-college-and-other-facts-about-Jews-at-American-colleges-437701 https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...

devmunchies 8y ago

Although i think this is normal behavior, it seems like a double standard. Wouldn't a white euorpean be inclined to do same thing (hire people similar to themselves)? I hope that as tech expands to all continents and becomes a truly globally distributed sector, we'll stop caring about race at a specific company since tech will competitive and diverse on a global scale. (e.g. a firm in India competing with a firm in Germany competing with a firm in Brazil)

jlawson 8y ago

It's not just Facebook. Jews are massively over-represented at the highest levels of society in most fields. <2% of population in America, <0.25% globally. But: 20% of Nobel prize winners 10-25% of Harvard students (depending on source and school) 33% of US supreme court (3/9) 6% of US Congress 8% of US Senate There are equally or more extreme numbers for things like movie studio leadership, rech company leadership, newsmakers and opinion writers, actors, comedians, etc. I just don't have time to look up the figures atm. To be clear, I'm not saying there's anything wrong or right about this; it's just an easily-verifiable physical fact.

ebiggs 8y ago
On a world scale this is interesting: Jews are only 0.2% of the World’s population, but 17.46% of the World’s billionaires. Thus their representation is 8,730% of their population share. Of course any non-idiot would see this as simply an interesting fact worthy of researching out how being a jew correlates with success in a merit-based competency hierarchy... and not a reason to hate jews for conspiring to take over the world. While we're at it, we should probably also chill out on white men in general too.