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do these figures mean anything without knowing the racial and ethnic data of the entire industry?

• gms 12y ago
  No. And even then, you'd only be interested in the data among the top end of the industry population, i.e. people likely to be productive as Google employees.
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > do these figures mean anything without knowing the racial and ethnic data of the entire industry? Yes. Of course, racial and ethnic data of the entire industry would help understand what they mean in more detail (particularly it would help understand how much is related to industry-wide factors and how much is Google-specific factors -- and note, the latter doesn't mean "Google's fault", if Google is especially selective and effective at taking the top end in merit, and external social factors tend to do worse at attracting or preparing women and some ethnic groups to be top-end candidates by merit, that's not Google's fault, but it would be a Google-specific factor.)