Re:The Unemployment Rate for People Like You
by natmaster on Saturday November 07, 2009 @05:16AM
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Am I the only one who thinks breaking this down by race is misleading? Why don't they have it broken down into industry? Saying this is due to racism is a huge leap from the correlation here. A more apt comparison would be people with the exact same skills and background applying for very similar jobs.
Well, I guess that would be too hard. Let's stick to dividing everyone into little groups to make this easier for our brains.
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Re:The Unemployment Rate for People Like You
by bigsassy on Saturday November 07, 2009 @10:25AM
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I know what you mean. A black colleague of mine was recently let go from my company and he found new employment pretty quickly. I wonder, if you graphed unemployment for developers would there be such a large difference between blacks and the other races?
Re:The Unemployment Rate for People Like You
by DougBTX on Saturday November 07, 2009 @06:01AM
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Am I the only one who thinks breaking this down by race is misleading?
No more misleading than breaking it down by age.
A more apt comparison would be people with the exact same skills and background applying for very similar jobs.
That just hides all the people who would never get the skills or background to apply for those jobs because of their race. These statistics are profiling a society, not judging whether a particular interviewer has bias.