Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem
For the millionth time. The distribution of populations not lining up with the general population distributions is <i>not</i> indicative of discrimination. Not to mention that the &quot;anti-brown people&quot; narrative absolutely dissolves in the face of the massive overrepresentation of Indians and other Asians. To say that Silicon Valley has a &quot;race problem&quot; and <i>only</i> include the employment statistics as they relate to the population at large is just pure insanity. What about the racial distribution of the hiring pool? It&#x27;s <i>less</i> diverse by their own standards than the distributions in companies. What about the racial distribution of college graduates in engineering? Then what about mapping the racial distribution of the college graduates onto interview success rates, where the biased distribution of the graduates as produced by the universities&#x27; affirmative action policies must necessarily align with a similar policy at the company if their own filtering criteria is to produce the same results?<p>The thing that I find the most interesting about all of this is that there isn&#x27;t an overt attempt to actually remove purported discrimination from the hiring process. Suggestions to anonymize the interview process typically produce results that are even <i>less</i> representative of their desired distribution, because almost every company is actively discriminating in <i>favor</i> of women and &quot;marginalized communities.&quot; If their accusations were actually on the basis of correcting bias&#x2F;discrimination, this is the sort of strategy you&#x27;d see advocated, but it&#x27;s not. They want arbitrary quotas that are, given the available pool of candidates to even consider, mathematically impossible to attain.