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> 37%...22%

Metrics for particular degrees would be more helpful. Some of those 22% are in accounting.

> So why are tech companies so strikingly white

Um, what? Maybe for early-stage startups. If you'd said "strikingly white, Indian, and East Asian," I'd agree.

Lets look at the compSci major at UC berkely, then, where only 16% were white (1). Yet when you look at the makeup of some of the FANGs in the bay area, most are ~50% white or more (2). That is a striking difference to me.

1. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo...

2. https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-report...

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