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by andrepd 3793 days ago
The number of black women is 12, not 0. I don't understand what you wish to gain by egregiously twisting the numbers. Yes, it's a low percentage. No, it's not zero.
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What do you wish to gain by being painfully pedantic? Black women are 5-6% of the population, but 0.01% of funded founders. That is a rounding error, effectively zero. Why not focus on the actual point of the post instead?
Because the title primed me to expect one thing, and then the post body rapidly contradicted it by providing twelve vetted examples of the class that the title claimed should not exist. My mind does not get over being misled and confused like that easily, especially when the fix to improve it is so trivial (like saying "virtually none" instead of "statistically zero").
OK. So... that's you entire comment? That's it? Problem solved?
You asked a question and I answered it. What's your deal?
The deal is that targeted pedantry like this completely derail the discussion, which is not 12 ≠ 0, but how and why black women are being excluded from tech.
Okay, but "effectively zero" != "statistically zero"

The "actual point" of the post is a lie.

So there's no discrimination, the entire post is a lie, because you found a point of math to be pedantic about. Got it.
The post is "statistically" a lie and you just used a straw man argument. Congrats.
I've got a great way of increasing the percentage by an order of magnitude! Doing the math correctly would immediately boost the number to 0.1% from your stated 0.01%. See, being painfully pedantic has already paid off handsomely.

(And don't worry, at least you were only off by a factor of 10. The original article is off by a factor of 100).