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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kin... says that in 2001, >90% of the people in the UK were white.

Got any sources for your <60-70% in the Ruby community?

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Yeah, 51% of the population are also women.

Now you are trolling. Or do you have a source for that? It seems highly unlikely that a programming community would have such a high percentage of women.

I would link to wikipedia for some verification of that feeling but all I could fine were biased feminist articles on that topic.

For posterity: I edited my comment to clarify my statement prior to seeing this comment.

Half of all people are women. !caucasians and !males are probably at least 30% of the industry, especially when you consider how minorities are overrepresented.

Since we're not citing any source, I'll say that population X is at least Y% of the industry.

> It seems highly unlikely that a programming community would have such a high percentage of women.

This is the problem with the programming community we need to fix.

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