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by whimsicalism 499 days ago
source: the "The Analysis" section of your own source or if you needed it stated more explicitly [0]:

> Before judging whether that’s impressive or excessive or some other adjective, it’s helpful to know what the available pool of new workers looked like. Or, more precisely, what the pool of new workers minus the pool of departing workers looked like. Net change is what we’re able to see.

i'm sure this will have precisely 0 impact on your worldview though

0: https://archive.is/POQnF#selection-1715.156-1715.449

1 comments

since your reply died - your absolutely wrong about massive oversampling, you can get 95% with basic assumptions about 60% white, 40% minority (matching actual proportions in the population - and actually an underestimate when you consider that new hires are young) and the retiring fortune 500 population (70-90% white).

as i said, just basic innumeracy on your part