> Trying to argue that male teachers bring some type of indescribable quality to the school atmosphere seems crazy. Except that the quality wasn't indescribabl

> Trying to argue that male teachers bring some type of indescribable quality to the school atmosphere seems crazy. Except that the quality wasn't indescribable. "So a quota that favored rural applicants or those who had not moved from their municipality of birth could have had similar effects. In fact, this helps explain the mechanism—if rural applicants have fewer resources on average, they will have higher ability conditional on any given score than applicants from more resource-rich urban environments." What is pointed out is that being male had correlated traits that are what should actually be what we are selecting for rather than simply being male.