The typical propaganda and demagoguery! Skin color ideology trumps science!
The simple fact is that there have been far more white scientists in the U.S. than other skin colors! What about Asians?
One may also notice that this is "meta" research! This study is also based on self identification of researchers in terms of their ethnic background/skin color. Any good scientist would not bother to such self identification and see this as an insult!
Please note more than 2,000 grants are not accounted for!
"... In 2019, the most recent year of data, the NSF funded a total of 11,243 grants. It approved:
31.3% of proposals by white applicants (6,389 awards).
29.0% of proposals by Hispanic or Latino applicants (449).
26.5% of proposals by Black applicants (246).
22.4% of proposals by Asian applicants (2,073). ...
Had the NSF awarded grants to all groups at the same rate, white academics would have received 798 fewer awards [??? laughable] in 2019 alone, the authors note."
Had the NSF awarded grants to all groups at the same rate, white academics would have received 798 fewer awards [??? laughable] in 2019 alone, the authors note."
From the abstract:
"Concerns about systemic racism at academic and research institutions have increased over the past decade. Here, we investigate data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a major funder of research in the United States, and find evidence for pervasive racial disparities. In particular, white principal investigators (PIs) are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs. Funding rates for white PIs have also been increasing relative to annual overall rates with time. Moreover, disparities occur across all disciplinary directorates within the NSF and are greater for research proposals. The distributions of average external review scores also exhibit systematic offsets based on PI race. Similar patterns have been described in other research funding bodies, suggesting that racial disparities are widespread. The prevalence and persistence of these racial disparities in funding have cascading impacts that perpetuate a cumulative advantage to white PIs across all of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics."
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