Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
by core-questions on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:50PM
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It's also very disingenuous to use these four oversimplified categories. There are no end of people who appear white, but don't personally identify as such for a litany of perfectly reasonable factors. And how much meaning does "Asian" have, when it's expected to somehow include two billion-person countries with vastly different genetic and cultural backgrounds?
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Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
by isoskeles on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:19PM
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That does not take away from the point that the industry is not as overwhelmingly "white" as people try to portray it.
You're right that it's a lousy set of categories, but I don't think it's disingenuous. Those categories roughly match the ones that large companies in the US have to track for their EEO-1 reports. I can't blame them for not doing more than is required of them for the sake of statistical accuracy.