A cruel favorite of mine is to pull up that faces of power business, with all of where it is from and whatnot, and ask someone, "So, why do you think so many ar

A cruel favorite of mine is to pull up that faces of power business, with all of where it is from and whatnot, and ask someone, "So, why do you think so many are white?" And they talk about racism, systematic oppression, on and on, what you would expect. Then I drop the blue star thing, tell them, and ask again. Sudden floundering, cognitive dissonance, and so on. Now, all of the same answers in A should apply, and intensely more so, given the statistical unlikeliness, but instead they all vanish. Merit, networking, talent, all of these explanations suddenly appear.