[290] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: The numbers (complete version)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven R. L. Millman)
Sat Apr 28 15:34:19 2001
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:31:23 -0400
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From: "Steven R. L. Millman" <millman@MIT.EDU>
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MIT students should do a better job of checking things out before
complaining. Look before you speak....
I provided those stats to Z with just the totals, but they are available
online, and have been each year for years. The complete breakdowns by
class, gender, course, race, etc. can all be found at:
http://web.mit.edu/communications/pres00/
Steven, The Defender of Changes for the Better
At 02:49 PM 4/28/01 -0400, you wrote:
>One problem I had with that statistic was that it does not break down the
class
>by ethnicity/race *and* gender. This being MIT, I wish they will make the
raw
>statistics available for analysis. (ie, the real spreadsheet they used, with
>names deleted.)
>
>I've always wanted to know, of those 1755 females, how many of them are
white,
>asian, hispanic, etc. Same with the male distribution.
>
>So that was that,
>
>B, the Defender of Status Quo
>
>> MIT 2000 Statistics (2001 not yet available):
>>
>> 4300 Students
>> 270 African American
>> 87 Native American
>> 451 Hispanic
>> 1187 Asian
>> 1479 White
>> 471 Unknown
>>
>> 2001 Gender breakdown
>>
>> 2503 Men
>> 1755 Women
>>
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