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I’ll be a bit annoying here and quote Wikipedia: Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy or representative government, is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. Wikipedia Essentially all Western democracies, including the U.S., use this representative form of government. The question we’re asking here is:Continue reading “U.S. Governors: When representative government isn’t representative”

Of the prisoners sentenced to death and executed in the U.S., we should expect that the percentage of those that are White and the percentage of those who are Black would be similar, if not the same, to those group’s representation in the overall U.S. population. This is not the case. In the U.S., 13.4%Continue reading “U.S. death penalty and race”

The death of George Floyd is just one of numerous recent, high-profile deaths of Black citizens at the hands of the police. While the overall number of U.S. citizens who die in police custody, or in the process of being put into custody, is dishearteningly high, the question is whether there is a notable differenceContinue reading “Are Blacks killed more often by police? U.S. arrest-related deaths by race”

In the U.S. population as a whole, 13.4% of the population is Black. At a company like Google, with more than 100,000 employees, equity would suggest that roughly 13.4% of Google’s total employees would be Black. They are not. As the table below shows, the percentage of Black employees, at 3.7%, is far below whatContinue reading “Google employment by race, 2020”

Consider the entire U.S. population by race. At a large university like Princeton, we would expect to see a racial makeup that’s roughly the same as the U.S. population as a whole. That is, if we live in a society with racial equality, and everyone, regardless of race, has the same shot at getting anContinue reading “Princeton University enrollment by race”