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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 Osamabobama on Friday November 04 2016, @09:20PM

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Friday November 04 2016, @09:20PM (#422632)

    I'm not sure they're very good at statistics...

    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.

    How many people would you need to in order to make 301.17 standard deviations a meaningful number? I would expect that area of most statistical distributions would be dealing with such small fractions of the population that we would be discussing the number of cells within that last person that can claim non-Asian origin.

    If anybody is willing to drill down into supporting documents and analyze the math, I think it would be instructive. Here is the link that contains the offending quote: H1B Work [computerworld.com].

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