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Re:Q&A with the Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversi... by statgeek8 on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:43AM (#10527668)
According to the figures in this[1] article, whites are technically under-represented at Twitter relative to their percentage of the general population, yet both it and the NPR article take for granted that there is a lack of ethnic diversity at Twitter and other tech companies, despite non-whites collectively being over-represented at them.

While certain minorities (blacks, Hispanics) are indeed under-represented at tech companies like Twitter, others (Asians) are over-represented, and to such a degree that whites actually end up under-represented. Yet a careless reader could easily be misled by these and other articles into believing that whites are crowding out minorities, which is demonstrably not the case.

I doubt this deception is accidental.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/07/twitter-diversity-st...

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Re:Q&A with the Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversi... by Pyxl101 on Sunday November 08, 2015 @01:37AM (#10527776)
Another question is: are black software engineers under-represented at Twitter? Not blacks, but black software engineers. There may be more or fewer black software engineers per capita among blacks compared to other races. For example, if more or fewer blacks graduate college per capita among blacks, then we would likely expect to find more or fewer black software engineers per capita.
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Re:Q&A with the Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversi... by jklinger410 on Sunday November 08, 2015 @01:22AM (#10527753)
IIRC the employee in question was also going to be laid off anyway.

Also it kind of undermines a meritocracy when you require gender and race parity IMO.

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