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Re:A humble alternative to technical interviews by lkbm on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:51PM (#19194808)
Race is so strongly correlated among friends (in the US, anyway) that it's unbelievable that people won't have observed this.[0] Average demographics:

* White Americans: 91% of social network are white; 8% black.

* Black Americans: 83% of social network are black; 1% white.

[0] https://www.prri.org/research/poll-race-religion-politics-am...

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Re:A humble alternative to technical interviews by JoeAltmaier on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:55PM (#19194842)
Some of that is normal population percentages - expected with random friends. Self-reported 'black' citizens are around 1-in-10 across the US.

And in Silicon Valley its different - the mix of international people of high education and achievement make it a skewed sample.

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Re:A humble alternative to technical interviews by CydeWeys on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:01PM (#19194879)
The vast majority of programming jobs in the US are not in Silicon Valley, though. It's a lot more homogenous outside the major cosmopolitan cities.
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Re:A humble alternative to technical interviews by dleslie on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:44PM (#19195170)
Not everyone visiting HN is from the USA.
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