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Reject away, but your counterexample doesn't prove anything. Once again, you're continuing to make the assumption that all outcomes should, prescriptively, be
by CWuestefeld 8y ago
Reject away, but your counterexample doesn't prove anything.
Once again, you're continuing to make the assumption that all outcomes should, prescriptively, be equal for any demographic you might care to examine.
There's no reason to believe that everyone is identical. That idea is a religion to some people, but it's all based on faith with no real evidence. People are free to pursue different goals, and to prioritize different things.
For your argument to prevail, you've got to get past that as an assumption. You need to actually demonstrate that for completely equivalent cases, some demographics are being held back. That's remarkably difficult to do.
Otherwise, I can do this: women compromise 56% of college enrollees, with men only at 44%. There's clearly some kind of superiority position with an interest in keeping men out of college.
I'm not claiming that's a problem, but with your model of presumptive discrimination, you're going to have to come up with an explanation.