If I was cynical I might consider this to be a feature, simply release another set of statistics a year later with the demographics sliced a little differently and declare victory.
Re:Apple releases diversity numbers
by tytytytyty on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:28PM
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A well thought out and written piece that butts heads with the hyper-sensitive "tech" marketers/bloggers that infect HN like a plague gets downvoted.
News at 11.
If I could give you a thousand upvotes I would.
This is exactly part of the seductive nature of “data” in EuroWestern culture.
Knowledge as power, but not in the rather trivial sense of education being empowering, but in the crafting of knowledge. As cited below, well explored by Mr. Foucault.
What is "hispanic"? Is a white person of Spanish descent "hispanic" or "white"? Wikipedia says that this is "is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain".
So a Greek or Turk would count as "white", but a Spaniard as "hispanic"? Pop quiz: Ricardo Montalbán: white or hispanic?
The pie chart seems to be mixing "ethnonyms" with skin colors.
Then there is "Asian"; what exactly is that, and does it lump together the people of Indians and of Korea?
About "white": suppose that 70% of applicants are white, but they are largely Slavic, from central and eastern Europe; and suppose that the 70% of the employed whites are Germanic whites. Nope, no discrimination there!
Maybe the "white" category is so large because it includes many ethnic groups: someone from Iceland could qualify, as well as someone from Israel.
Since the Arabic and East Indian people are "caucasoid", any pale-skinned people from those regions can represent themselves as white. A person with albinism of Indian descent is very difficult to distinguish from a European, if at all. (Do a Google image search for "indian albino").