[aurelian]

"Regardless of where the failure is there is clearly something about the software engineering industry and the pipeline leading to it that is biased against minorities"

How can you say that when East and South Asians are so overrepresented?

[chimeracoder]

Three things:

1. You are confusing P(A|B) with P(B|A).

2. Even if it were true, a lack of bias against a few minority groups would not invalidate the statement that there is bias against other minority groups.

3. You are conflating a very wide and disparate set of ethnic groups in a way that is very misleading (and mathematically similar to Gerrymandering[0]). If we were to break those very broad categories further, we would see that many groups that qualify as "East and South Asian" are still themselves under-represented.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

[aurelian]

1. How so? 2. True, but the comment I responded to made a different claim. 3. is irrelevant. There are always under-represented groups depending on how you look at the data, but if you claim general bias against minorities when some minorities are doing very well, you have some explaining to do.