[297] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: The numbers (complete version)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._)
Sat Apr 28 17:21:02 2001
Message-Id: <200104282122.RAA08051@MECHWARRIOR.MIT.EDU>
To: "Steven R. L. Millman" <millman@MIT.EDU>
cc: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:31:23 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:22:28 EDT
From: "Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._Chien-ta Wu" <jimmbswu@MIT.EDU>
I'm sorry. This might mean that I'm a clueless researcher, but I cannot find
that "complete breakdown" you're talking about in the President's report. I
cannot find a breakdown of students by sex *and* race.
B, the Defender of Status Quo
> 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, wit
*h
> >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
> >>
> >
> >-----------
> >"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
> > But in ourselves, that we are underlings [or losers]"
> >
> > -- Cassius, _Julius_Caesar_
> >
> >"Mi Amore" "Who Dares, Wins."
> > --UK SAS
> >In Memory of Michele Micheletti'00, MIT
> >(She's my camp counselor...)
> >
> >"It [S***] happens" "Damn the torpedoes!"
> >--Forrest Gump --Adm. Farragut during the siege of Mobile Bay
> >
>
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves, that we are underlings [or losers]"
-- Cassius, _Julius_Caesar_
"Mi Amore" "Who Dares, Wins."
--UK SAS
In Memory of Michele Micheletti'00, MIT
(She's my camp counselor...)
"It [S***] happens" "Damn the torpedoes!"
--Forrest Gump --Adm. Farragut during the siege of Mobile Bay
