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Cluelessness

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven R. L. Millman)
Sat Apr 28 19:33:01 2001

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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:24:51 -0400
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From: "Steven R. L. Millman" <millman@MIT.EDU>
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It's a couple of clicks, but you probably are a little clueless.  Here is
the EXACT link:

http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/students/enrollment.html

Steven

At 05:22 PM 4/28/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>> > 
>> 
>
>-----------
>"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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