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Does it also strikes you odd that asians represent far more percentage in IT jobs than their representative population? it can be explained in number of ways, mostly immigrant population, self selected population that is privileged to have money to come overseas, culture of emphasis on education than rest of the population etc.

So while striking odd part is correct. Assuming that only explanation is discrimination is incorrect in my opinion.

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This is a strange comment. You're pretending I hold some opinion about the participation of Asians in the IT sector in the US, and then proceed to explain why that opinion is wrong, all the while never answering my question about the topic at hand.

For reference, the comparison to Asians in the US job market seems misplaced.

From the numbers I found, the representation of Asians in admissions, industry and faculty seems to line up pretty accurately. They represent 10-11% of STEM students, 13% of STEM workers, and 11% of STEM professors. I didn't find detailed numbers for IT specifically.

On the other hand, according to what was written in this thread, OBC people represent 50% of IIT students, but only 1/180 or about 0.6% of IIT professors.

i was giving you example where data would give you the impression that something is odd but there are reasonable explanations for its oddity.

| For reference, the comparison to Asians in the US job market seems misplaced. | I didn't find detailed numbers for IT specifically.

It would be good to share the sources since you already did the hard work of finding them so that we can scrutinize it as well.

OP is claiming 50% of population of india and not IIT students.