Hi Selma, I saved you the trouble of finding the statistics mentioned by Carmo. He is way off the mark and is just propagating a commonly held misconception.
If one studies the statistics for the number of Doctoral scientists and engineers by race/ethnicity you will find of a total of 685,300 an overwhelming 535,600(78%) are White and only 108,150 are Asian(15%). So the Indians will form an even smaller percentage since Asians include Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, etc. Refer to http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf06320/pdf/tab6.pdf for further details. The situation is slightly better in Computer Sciences and significantly better in Computer Engineering, but nowhere is the percenatage of Indians even close to 80%. It is really disappointing to see an IITian providing such misinformation but then again we are well used to fake experiments and random statistics on this forum. Regards Sunith Velho _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
