Why are there so few black people in STEM?

Post by the_omegist » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #207

the_omegist wrote: post #182

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Even more visible than basketball and totally genetically admitted : 100m race. Even the most gene-allergic person will have trouble denying perhaps predisposition for speed can be unequally distributed among different races. But genes would magically stop having any meaningful effect above the waist...

You may be interested in reading Superior: The Return of Race Science which is a comprehensive debunking of your racist ideology. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Sain...

It's always nice when people react rationally...

I think you mean my science-based and rational ideology. Either you explain where my logic is failing or you have nothing to teach me.

Post by paradox242 » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 7:46 PM UTC

CyanLite2 wrote: post #79

scarface74 wrote: post #61

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For context: I am Black. I think it’s a pipeline problem. How many Blacks are graduating from top schools in STEM? I didn’t graduate from a top school at all. But that was back in the mid 90s and by choice. I just needed a degree. I knew I could get a job and be competitive with anyone being self taught in both C and a variety of assembly languages. I just got a job at Amazon under AWS Professional Services. I got a…

I'm black too, but I've had the opposite experience. Turned down at Google, Microsoft, and a few other Top N tech companies. Is it because I'm black? Probably not. But throughout all of the interviews, I've never met or seen another black engineer on the teams, let alone interviewed by one. It's hard enough to get through the hackerrank-style "gotcha" questions, but it's even harder to feel connected to an interviewe…

It seems one of the most insidious effects of racism is the nagging feeling when a job interview doesn't work out, or someone was rude to you, in the back of your mind wondering if racial bias had anything to do with it. Even if one could keep a relatively accurate accounting, just having to constantly process this being a real possibility would be exhausting.

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