He now says he did no such thing.

http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/24/breast-of-show

Admittedly, I’m Irish, Welsh, English, Scotch, and nothing else. Oh wait, 1/64 Cherokee. But … yep.

I thought about becoming Baptist just so my inability to dance would be forever unknown to the world…

Stephen, are whites really 75% of the US population?

Yep. I did the hand calculation from the 2000 US census numbers, but it turns out Wikipedia’s already done it for us with the 2005 numbers.

It’s really my hope that when Liza is my age, this sort of problem really will be a thing of the past.

I’ll hope for it with you, but I just don’t expect it. I had sexual harrassment avoidance training at work last week, and as I sat in there, I remarked on just how white male skewed my workplace is.

Stephen, are whites really 75% of the US population? I didn’t think it was that high.

There are genetic differences, but there are also cultural differences that can keep some folks from getting good treatment.

Certainly. That’s a big problem that I can’t even begin to think of how you solve. The issue is in building levels of trust, and man … is that ever hard to do societally.

I don’t see a bias where I work, but I’m in administration (which seems typically female)…

And that’s an issue, too, at some level. I’m not so naïve to think that there aren’t some gender-based tendencies that make females strong in such roles, but it always worry me in business that we mentally chalk such things up to “woman’s work”.

I don’t see a bias where I work, but I’m in administration (which seems typically female)…

White: 88.8% (75%)
Black: 8% (12.3%)
Asian/Pacific Islanders: 2.8% (3.8%)

In terms of ethnicity, 5.6% in the trials were Hispanic, versus 12.5%. All data taken from the 2000 US Census.

There are genetic differences, but there are also cultural differences that can keep some folks from getting good treatment.

It’s really my hope that when Liza is my age, this sort of problem really will be a thing of the past.

And then I slapped myself, because you said 88.8% white, and I did the mental math while ignoring every single other minority out there. I want to blame it on a lack of wakefulness, or perhaps environment, but … neither is terribly satisfying. :sigh:

There’s selection bias, I’d expect, in the number of minorities who get into medical trials because of wealth and healthcare access disparities. I’m fine with slicing such data along racial lines in an effort to make sure that underserved groups get treatment and study—there’s enough data to suggest that race has enough genetic difference to affect how diseases operate—but I’d be almost as concerned that poor Americans of any ethnic background are underserved as a rule. But then I’m one of those pesky people trying to figure out a way to nationalize healthcare without wrecking the system any more than it already is.

[And yes, I'm off on a tangent. Sorry.]