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by gdy 2711 days ago
Imagine you have a pool of 10 candidates from a minority group and 100 white males.

Only 20% from each group are qualified enough.

If you need to hire 5 people and want them to be from the minority group, you end up hiring 2 qualified engineers and 3 - not so much.

Congratulations, you've met your diversity quota.

Also, the condional probability of a minority engineer being underqualified is 3/5 now, but this number is declared racist.