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> Your comments do a good job of articulating the emotional arguments people use to support affirmative action. This is unfair: I never said anything about aff
by ianleeclark 8y ago
> Your comments do a good job of articulating the emotional arguments people use to support affirmative action.
This is unfair: I never said anything about affirmative action, made normative claims, or appealed to emotion. I stated why this test would still have bias towards poorer classes.
The narrative I was concerned with pointing out was that class characteristics could be biased in similar ways to physical characteristics and that mechanisms seeking to remove bias of physical characteristics will still allow bias for class characteristics.
- TimTheTinker 8y agoBy emotional argument I meant an argument whose strength lies in its effect on emotions, as opposed to its rational strength. Perhaps that's a weasel term. But I tried to back up my assertion that introducing bias can't remove bias. > mechanisms seeking to remove bias of physical characteristics will still allow bias for class characteristics. If by "bias for class characteristics" you mean "objective standards", I call that nonsense. By definition, an objective standard will cease to be objective once a subjective-based alteration is introduced. If an objective standard happens to favor one class over another, it's not the standard's problem. The problem lies in whatever caused that class to do worse.