[Uehreka]

> "If you go to those five schools, the percentage of minorities and the percentage of women is X and Y. Let's say it's 3% and 10%. If those companies hire only 10% of the people they interview, then the number [of minority hires] you get is zero. Right? It's zero."

I agree in principle, but this math seems off... Sure you only hire 10% of the people you interview, but if all the people you hire come from these 5 schools, then you should still have 3% minorities and 10% women (since 100% of your employees are from these schools).

3% and 10% are plenty revolting, there's no need for them to fudge the numbers.

[itchyouch]

The other bias that shows up is the different requirements portrayed to people based on their race. There was a recent article about how this was done in Lousiana to keep an apartment community predominantly white.

I see my company pulling a similar stunt. Employees are strictly hired through a recruiting firm and only after passing the interview do we bother to have them actually submit an actual application where the gender & ethnicity stats are collected. I suppose this enables us to be able to say, "we have hired 100% of all black/hispanic/asian/etc people that have ever applied to our corporation. There is no way that we are racist at all. We can't help it that 99.9999% of applicants ever, were white."

[mcguire]

Human beings only come in discrete quanta.