>This latest report by Linkedin is where it hit me – something smells fishy about this. It is just too much of a coincidence that three of the major tech companies have issued almost identical “diversity” reports, and all three have been missing something screamingly obvious – any mention at all of age, or even an explanation as to why it is missing. This almost seems like collusion, it is almost certainly a cover up.

Someone needs to do more research before jumping to conclusions about motive. Age isn't reported in the US EEO-1 Survey [1] which is the basis of the diversity reports that various companies have recently published [2]. That's why the reports are nearly identical.

[1] http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/index.cfm & http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/ee1_datafile_2013.c...

[2] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...