Why are there so few black people in STEM?
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Why are there so few black people in STEM?
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#2Why are there so few white people in pro basketball?
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#3Because sometimes some people choose not to go into STEM. It's an individual's choice.
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#4This article says white people are underrepresented in earning science and engineering bachelor degrees. Lol.
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#5This article says white people are underrepresented in earning science and engineering bachelor degrees. Lol.
True. I didn't get that
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#6If you come from a demographic making the lowest amount of money e.g. 41k/yr per the article would it not make sense to do a career with a more immediate reward? PhD is for people with trust funds who can afford to take a 50-60k postdoctoral position in a vhcol city due to a trust fund paying out at least 50-60k per year.
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#7Who is getting the rest of the undergrad science degrees if Asians, Blacks, and Whites only account for 74% of them?
Re: Why are there so few black people in STEM?
#8If you come from a demographic making the lowest amount of money e.g. 41k/yr per the article would it not make sense to do a career with a more immediate reward? PhD is for people with trust funds who can afford to take a 50-60k postdoctoral position in a vhcol city due to a trust fund paying out at least 50-60k per year.
I know dozens of PhDs.
Literally not a single one of them has a trust fund.
I know probably about a dozen people with trust funds. None of them got anything past a Masters (but most did actually go for the masters).
Obviously this is anecdotal, but in my experience your assertion is not true. If you have stats to back it up though I'd be happy to see them.
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#9Why are there so few white people in pro basketball?
What are you implying?
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#10For the same reason there are so few poor whites in STEM. America's dysfunctional education funding.
Make education funding federal, and have a nationwide push to have small classes and well funded schools for everybody, and this would be fixed in 10 years. As it is, rich districts pay more taxes and get better schools. Funny that.