In general if you are suppressing a class of people’s participation, the top people in that class will be more apt than your average participant. So including t

In general if you are suppressing a class of people’s participation, the top people in that class will be more apt than your average participant. So including them will increase the average aptitude. The only time that isn’t true is when you are suppressing a class of people who are fundamentally shittier than the dominant class. The affirmative action debate comes down to whether you think skewed performance numbers are evidence that a) some of the classes are superior to the others or b) the numbers don’t accurately measure performance. There’s nothing inherent in the data to point one way or the other. It’s just a litmus test on whether you’re a supremacist.