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If employment was a representative percentage of the US, then you’d expect 1.3% of the employees to be Indian. He’s identifying that Indians are over represented by almost 76x. Let’s say that the company is made up of 100 engineers. In order to get 100 Indian engineers randomly, the odds are much worse than 3720 to 1. It implies immense discrimination by the employers which is systemic.


Is only 1.3% of prospective qualified candidates Indian?

Using statistics from the general population is not relevant here.


Ok, let’s say qualified candidates are 50% Indian. If 100 of the employees are Indian, what is the probability of that being a random coincidence? (.5)^100?

I see this throughout industry. Even if the qualified candidates are 75% Indian, and a team of 10 is 100% Indian, what’s the probability that’s a coincidence?




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