s, then employers could be punished merely because of a "dearth of qualified nonwhite applicants (for reasons that are not [the employers] fault)." Wards Cove Packaging Co. v. Atonio, 490 U.S. 642, 651, 109 S. Ct. 2115, 104 L. Ed. 2d 733 (1989). Thus, "statistics based on an applicant pool containing individuals lackin