The New York Times is being taken to the woodshed on social media for using the term “overrepresented” in an article on Asians in figure skating. “The Asian American Pipeline in Figure …
The Times article noted Chen and other Asian American skaters were starting to dominate in a sport once exclusively white.
“I used the word after hearing [it] in conversation with multiple Asian American sociologists,” Keh tweeted. “It literally just means that participation is clearly disproportionate to the population stat cited in the same sentence. There’s no judgment baked into it.”“Asians make up around 7% of the U.S. population but have become vividly overrepresented in ice rinks and competitions at every level, from coast to coast,” said the media outlet.
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