Tanner Glass
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2016
This one made me mad so I looked it up.
How hard would you have to work to get the 8 people in the picture to all be white?
Even if you throw out all preconceived racial notions like "Black people don't have enough education to work in a corporation, typically" and "black people having jobs lol" and we assume an even playing field and strictly look at census data and apply math we get the following.
According to the census Metro Detroit is only 22% black (which is still higher than average). Meaning that basically every person in that room only has at best a 1 in 4 chance of being black. The odds of 0 people being black is 10%, (3 to the power of 8 / 4 to the power of 8 ) which is a small percentage, but mathematically represents stuff that can happen easily in reality. It's roughly the same odds as flipping a coin three times and getting the "heads" side every time. Not probably but it can and does happen. It certainly is not the "one in a billion" chance this guy is making it out to be.
Now, we add one simple variable to this equation, it will be this. White people are 50% more likely to be college educated, which is likely a Twitter corporate requirement. This changes our initial assumption of a black person being in that space from 1 in 4 to 1 in 6. If we re-run the numbers with the new variables we'll find (390625 / 1679616) that the percentage jumps to nearly 25%. This would be the odds of flipping a coin twice and having it on "heads" twice in a row.
It's a fairly common outcome and every variable you add will make the odds higher and higher but it's still a real and possible outcome even when you factor in nothing but the basics.