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Statistically, the odds are that for any random thing being done in the US of A, the majority doing it will be white and male. Age and childlessness are probab
by sageikosa 14y ago
Statistically, the odds are that for any random thing being done in the US of A, the majority doing it will be white and male. Age and childlessness are probably relatively well co-related, so we only have to account for one of those.
What is comes down to is that the steady supply of labor entering a field causes it to be a buyers market.
- Thrymr 14y agoHardly the "majority". White males are less than 40% of the US population. I don't think we're going out on much of a limb to say that they are overrepresented in the game industry.
- sageikosa 14y ago"Plurality" then, still the odds are on the white guy for any random task. I'm not really making a judgment, just trying to frame thoughts on the significance of the correlative factors. For non-random tasks (such as game development) we can certainly look to see why the variance of the population diverges from the variance of the general population and hypothesize to our hearts content.