Furthermore, Latinos were only 3% of guests in cable news shows, Latino TV writers are underrepresented by a factor of four to one, and Latino TV producers are underrepresented five to one at the executive producer level, and nearly 30% of all television shows have no minority writers on staff.
"At four-year colleges in the United States," Mr. Gladwell wrote, "students belonging to the relatively youngest group in their class are underrepresented by about 11.6 percent.
We are looking for anyone who is willing to rise to the challenge of writing about some of the most crucial issues facing the developing world - issues that are often overlooked or underrepresented by the media.
The council ruled that the constitution-drafting commission should be directly elected, perhaps as a sop to easterners who argued that they were underrepresented by the previously proposed allocation of seats in the commission.
"Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation," said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist.
"I have never been too concerned that the very wealthy are underrepresented by our political system," said James Hines, a professor of business economics at the University of Michigan Business School and director of the school's Office of Tax Policy Research.
