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Originally Posted by finnbow
It sounds similar because they are similar. Namely, too few qualified blacks are interested in being cops and too few American kids study electrical engineering/computer science. Look at the EE/CS class structure at America's engineering schools and you'll see a high percentage of Asians (which for whatever reason is not true in Civil, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering).
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Maybe so but what about those of us who did have the skills and never made it past the HR department?
I also never could understand why girls are discouraged from taking computer science. Back at Bell we were 50/50 men and women and the ladies were damn good. Plus Bell had us all trained, people in their mid twenties to ones like me in their mid thirties. Of course I realize that companies here expect someone else to pick up the tab for training people. I will admit that in '63 computer programmers were rather thin on the ground.