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And how many are bald? How many have blue eyes? My point is: how come we are so sure that diversity at some place X should exactly match demographics?
by rimantas 12y ago
And how many are bald? How many have blue eyes?
My point is: how come we are so sure that diversity at some place X should exactly match demographics?
- mcphage 12y ago> how come we are so sure that diversity at some place X should exactly match demographics Assuming that those demographics are independent of talent or skill, why wouldn't diversity of a population match the diversity of the population as a whole? At least for a large enough company, of which Google (with over 50,000 employees, although not all are in the US) certainly qualifies. Or to put it another way: if you took 50,000 people at random from the US, then their demographics would closely mirror the demographics of the US as a whole. So if the diversity at a company is very different from that, then something is happening to cause that difference.