Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 02:02:12 -0500 Message-ID: <5579329D.112@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:02:54 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: 75% of US scientists are white. References: <5573EB3B.69B5@ix.netcom.com> <5iim4c-p4.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 23.241.144.149 X-Trace: sv3-qjgNs9DRimFV7y7zRf1X2Fl/SBRBItzgCp1H5DcJJDavY4iQQ1s+L5VfyLIYMlvuQQczAjzStKAPJVy!619uY9Y/1vtMBhYXzUcNDyoWfTkvTih2vt85nbopCtv6ZbilN8sVp9vphQjexz0HZv7XnKpmsPg9!QwPSvO7EZw== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1637 Xref: aioe.org sci.physics:499357 sci.physics.relativity:352685 rec.arts.sf.written:413419 alt.astronomy:269788 jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > > In sci.physics The Starmaker wrote: > > http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/02/75-per-cent-scientists-engineers-white-diversity-stem > > > > > > > > That number has to be wrong! It's not possible. > > Since about 75% of the US population is white, depending on how you define > white, that sounds about right to me. Well, if you are going to use disclaimers..like, "depending on how you define white", then you're right, Black is White.