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Currently, the USA population is 60.4% white [1]. So, whites are under-represented in big tech (50.1% white according to this post) while over-represented sign

• cuzBchain 5y ago
  Because it’s low effort work that doesn’t require real manual labor. Anglo-gibberish is great for generating semantic nonsense and given the US is 9th in reading education, 31st in math, you expect these dim white people to work when they can generate cognitive noise to stay busy? Their dad owns a dealership and their mom is on a school PTA. They’re better than work. It’s has nothing to do with data and the emotional entitlement.
• awillen 5y ago
  Much, much smaller population. From OP: " So here is a more comprehensive data bank of 982 individuals across 14 publications." It's that, vs. the millions of employees in big tech. So first you're dealing with the fact that smaller samples are going to have higher variance. Beyond that, though, since diversity has become important to businesses, tech employment has grown much faster than tech journalism. If you're actively hiring a lot of people, you can shift the mix by bringing in a larger proportion of people that are different than the initial population that you started with. If you're not growing, then that means people have to leave the original population, either by firing or quitting, and then be replaced. The latter takes longer than the former, particularly when you're comparing big tech, which has a huge amount of turnover at a given company, and tech journalism, which has much less.
  • whimsicalism 5y ago
    I think it is more that industries that rely heavily on actual productivity/measurable competency are going to lean more heavily on the immigrant population because domestic STEM education largely seems to suck. It's been my experience in every high-stakes knowledge work job (not journalism) that many of the people I work with are immigrants from the continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa.
    • walshemj 5y ago
      Nah they want low cost warm bodies in seats that are compliant and used to terrible management practices.
• Traster 5y ago
  Because if you look at the actual data from the big tech companies there is literally 1 very obvious reason that all groups are under-represented. Because the "Asian" group in most big tech companies is about as big as the "White" group despite being a faaar smaller part of the population.
  • humanrebar 5y ago
    And don't forget that the data group everyone with ancestors from Asia, a rather large and diverse place, as being from a single demographic. That is, if they don't group people from an Asian background in the broad "not historically underrepresented" category. As if Uighers and Cambodians (for instance) have massive institutional advantages.
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• fourstar 5y ago
  "White" is an overloaded meaningless descriptor.
• rubyist5eva 5y ago
  How many tech journalists in the USA are under H1B Visas?