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DavidWaldron t1_ir9mszx wrote

Reply to comment by icywatermelons in [OC] Ethnic Differences in Representation for Bachelor/Master Degree Holders in the US (2019) by icywatermelons

I don’t understand your calculation. You’ve effectively divided by population twice (% of degrees)/((% of population)^2 ). Put it simply: according to your data, black people earn 11% of all master’s degrees. Your Census link isn’t working, but the black percent of the age 18-44 population is somewhere over 13%. How does this end up as overrepresented?

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icywatermelons OP t1_ir9uy4h wrote

i just relooked at what i typed and realised that i wrote divide instead of minus, i'm sorry about the oversight on my side

but the bars are based on the formula below:[(% of degree - % of population)/ % of population] *100

in 2019, the percentage of blacks aged 18-44 were 12.4% and they were 13.79% of the master degrees, so

[(13.79-12.4)/12.4]*100 = 11.21

TLDR:

- my mistake for typing / instead of - (but the bars are not affected)

- i've updated the census link as well, thanks for the heads up

- i could upload a table if necessary

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DavidWaldron t1_ir9wncv wrote

Yeah I’m afraid the Census links don’t seem to work. That’s fine. I use the microdata and calculate that black non-Hispanics are 13.4% of the 18-44 population, and 15.7% of the 18-44 population when you exclude foreign-born and limit to the racial categories you are using.

Edit, I put the wrong link: https://imgur.com/a/PvEWW3o

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