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That's not what the article said. The key point is that Asian applications scored well in "whole person" metrics when evaluated face to face, from teachers, hig
by albntomat0 8y ago
That's not what the article said. The key point is that Asian applications scored well in "whole person" metrics when evaluated face to face, from teachers, high school counselors, and alumni interviews, but much worse when graded by Harvard admissions officers, on supposedly similar categories.
All of those subjective ratings should be heavily correlated, as they are all trying to measure the same things.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> All of those subjective ratings should be heavily correlated I wouldn't go so far. If your measures always correlate, why have separate measures? The point is when one measure disagrees with the others, it should say something meaningful. In this case, the disagreement appears to say "this student is Asian."
- albntomat0 8y agoMy understanding of it is that they are multiple samples of the same underlying distribution (the applicant's subjective characteristics). Multiple references who know/have interacted with the applicant attest to his/her personality strengths & weaknesses, and the average of all of them should result in an accurate measure of the person. If one of your "sensors" consistently measures lower than the grouping of the others, then you look into why that one is giving faulty readings, if it does so over a large sample size.
- davidwihl 8y agoI read the (poorly written) article and disagree with it. I suggest you read Harvard's request for summary judgement (linked in the article) to see how carefully they weigh a multitude of factors.