>So if you hire a smaller fraction of any racial category of applicants than there were in the pool of applicants or in the workforce of your region, then your

>So if you hire a smaller fraction of any racial category of applicants than there were in the pool of applicants or in the workforce of your region, then your hiring method has disparate impact. Is it necessarily because of the hiring method, though? Couldn't it be possible that there is something about the company as a whole that causes people in a protected class to avoid applying to the company? (For example, if the company has racist ads.)