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> First generation immigrants are still a tiny minority of the population Not in California. Last I remember, something like a quarter of the state’s populatio
by bugglebeetle 3y ago
> First generation immigrants are still a tiny minority of the population
Not in California. Last I remember, something like a quarter of the state’s population is foreign born.
- svnt 3y agoIt looks like you are roughly right, but still, a sampling of 8 students from this population is not likely to come up that way (by my calculation 1.4x10^-7) > All Students in Higher Education in California > 2,737,000 > First-Generation Immigrant Students > 387,000 14% are first-generation immigrants from: https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/ https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThat's still a 1-in-4^8 = 1-in-65536 longshot.
- dragonwriter 3y agoIts really not; hiring within a single firm, especially for related functions, will tend fo have correlated biases, rather than being a random sample from even the pool of qualified applicants, much less the broader population.