The Daily Populous Wednesday April 28th, 2021 evening edition
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pie-en-argent on April 28th, 2021 at 01:45 UTC »

I think a sample computation will help here.

Suppose your state is 60% orc, 30% undead, and 10% tauren. You chance in a random selection of two being of the same race is as follows:

36% chance ((60%)2) of two orcs 9% chance ((30%)2) of two undead 1% chance ((10%)2) of two tauren

For a total of 46%. The diversity index would be 100% minus that, or 54%.

sleeknub on April 28th, 2021 at 03:08 UTC »

Glad you used an actual measure of diversity. A lot of times I see a measure that simply equates to the percentage of non-whites. Which would mean a place that is 100% black is somehow more diverse than a place that is 50% black and 50% white.

rosepahhhty on April 28th, 2021 at 03:12 UTC »

So New England (Maine, VT, NH) is the least diverse in the country with ME winning the title?