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What % of the population is engineers? 1% representation doesn’t feel that off.
by voidfunc 5y ago
What % of the population is engineers? 1% representation doesn’t feel that off.
- jart 5y agoNot if you consider that 66% of the people who sit in congress are lawyers and they're only 0.36% of the population.
- sofixa 5y agoBut a decent part of congress' job is around laws ( writing or sponsoring them, arguing for/against them, etc.) it makes sense that lawyers are overrepresented.
- elliekelly 5y agoIt would make sense that Congress hires a lot of lawyers but since Congress is supposed to represent the people I don’t think having one profession so heavily over-represented is beneficial. And I say that as a member of the heavily-over-represented profession.