I'm probably going to be booed because It's not politically correct to say this stuff... but so what? Why does the NHL only have 5% black players while the NBA

I'm probably going to be booed because It's not politically correct to say this stuff... but so what? Why does the NHL only have 5% black players while the NBA only has 17% white players? Is it that white people don't have the necessary height or that black people don't have the required thigh muscles? No, obviously not. There are just cultural differences that have lead to certain groups being over/under represented in different areas of the economy. It doesn't require there to be a grand conspiracy to keep non-whites out of SV! I don't even thing you have to go to a Larry Summers type of explanation. What's the solution? Should we force the NBA to have at most 10% black players (and the NHL to have at least 10%) to be more representative of the population? Should we force investors to back startups that have female founders? Should we force ourselves to stop listening to Miles Davis? We're starting to realize that affirmative action doesn't work and actually creates negative outcomes (see work by Thomas Sowell for example). Yes it obviously shows that there's a difference in the allure of SV to different groups of people.. but you could also cut the data and see that SV funding disproportionately goes to people with STEM degrees (the poor liberal arts folks!) At most this should be categorized as interesting. Also the final stat in the article "women make 49 cents for every dollar men make in Silicon Valley" is ridiculous. Obviously, as we've learned, the composition of jobs taken by men and women in SV is different. That's going to be represented in average salaries. Motherjones as usual seems to be trying to create a controversy where one doesn't exist.. or at least way, way, way downstream from where it truly does exist.