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for gender, it's the entire applicant pool (we ask for gender so that's easy to compute.) for race, it's a bit harder. we don't ask for it, but we looked thro
by sama 12y ago
for gender, it's the entire applicant pool (we ask for gender so that's easy to compute.)
for race, it's a bit harder. we don't ask for it, but we looked through hundreds of videos and made our best guess (it's also why we left the number as approximate, as of course there are cases where we got it wrong.)
- minimaxir 12y agoAh, that clears up the sampling bias. I might have asked the wrong question. What I meant was "how many people are 5% of YC applicants" that were used to calculate a representative proportion? Let's say 2000 companies apply each with 2-3 founders, so 4000-6000 founders total. 5% of that is 200-300, which can result in a reasonable margin of error for the conclusion proportion but may not be perfect.
- sama 12y agomore than 10,000. still, definitely small enough for random variance.
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