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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by tremon on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:57PM (#42955004)
If your candidate pool is 80% white and you hire 25% minorities, is that discrimination? I have seen people argue (rabidly!) both ways on that question.
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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by Aurornis on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:56PM (#42955820)
Discrimination involves deliberately factoring the applicant's class into hiring decisions.

Discrimination isn't determined by looking at single digit percentage differences in aggregate statistics.

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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal by ImJamal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:42PM (#42956406)
That is not deliberately hiring whites? That is just hiring whites by happenstance. I am talking about choosing the white candidate because he is white.
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