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posted by martyb on Friday November 04 2016, @07:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-did-THAT-happen? dept.

The composition of Infosys' U.S. workforce is too lopsided -- overwhelmingly South Asian -- to be an accident, allege the plaintiffs in a discrimination lawsuit.

The plaintiffs, four IT workers from around the U.S., brought their discrimination lawsuit against the India-based IT services giant in 2013. This week, they filed a motion seeking class-action certification from 2009, and say the potential pool of plaintiffs may be as large as 125,000.
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Neumark wrote that "the share of South Asian workers in Infosys' United States-based workforce, when compared to the relevant labor market, is 301.17 standard deviations higher, and the statistical likelihood that this disparity is due to chance -- as opposed to a systematic difference in hiring favoring one group over the other -- is less than 0.0000001%, or less than 1 in 1 billion."


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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday November 04 2016, @03:32PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday November 04 2016, @03:32PM (#422503)

    Not sure if you were going for sarcasm of not.

    I doubt race significantly effects any of those points.

    For point 1 to be true, the average white applicant would have to:

    1. Be aware that Infosys is dominated by south asian people
    2. Be racist enough to care.

    Point 2 has mostly been discredited. There is no strong evidence that any race is inherently smarter than another. IQ tests test education as much as they test intelligence.

    Point 3 is just silly (invoking Poe's law).

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