• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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      This data allows you to see if children of sales assistants, restaurant workers, janitors, are underrepresented. It allows you to measure social mobility and meritocracy.

      But can’t the same thing be said about melanin levels? “There is no data suggesting there is a problem” is a door bad actors hide behind all of the time.

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      Dude, that’s so fucking weird. Neither of my parents ever went to college and I did, but I don’t obsess over it. “Everything” is a terrible answer.

      Outside of university admissions, what’s the purpose of this? “Underrepresented” how? Do you really think society is a meritocracy?

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      Anglosphere countries seem to care primarly about race.

      No, it’s pretty much in everyone’s mind. Just because it doesn’t present the same way everywhere doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

      The arrogance of statements you make…

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      No, what my parents do has nothing to do with what I do, or what I am capable of.

      Edit: the only thing here that makes sense is the economic help part, but you don’t need their families profession to correct for that.

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        No, what my parents do has nothing to do with what I do, or what I am capable of.

        That’s not actually statistically true, though. Like, the biggest predictor of your life’s financial outcome is the postal code you grew up with.