Airbnb's experiment in combatting rental bias means swapping names for initials

Re:Airbnb's experiment in combatting rental bias means swapp... by jevoten on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:43PM (#29815426)

As of 2017, 69 percent of Google’s workforce was male, compared to 70 percent in 2014, and 91 percent was white or Asian, a percentage that’s barely changed over three years. - https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi...

These articles always pull the same tricks. They invent a new racial category, "white or Asian", to avoid stating that only 61% were white - i.e. slightly underrepresented compared to the 63.7% white 2010 US demographics [1]. Although by 2014 the white % had probably dropped enough that they are neither over- nor under-represented at Google (the 2020 census reports non-Latino whites as only 57.8% of the US - a 5.9% drop in only 10 years [2]).

But you wouldn't know this from "91% white or Asian". Maybe they can make the problem go away entirely by saying Google is "32% Black or Asian"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_t...

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Re:Airbnb's experiment in combatting rental bias means swapp... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:23PM (#29815949)

I wonder who and why they are framing it this way.

Especially with admission scandals at top schools, there seems to be an unspoken systemic bias against asians perpetuated by some activists.

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