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"What proportion (of x ethnic group) would you like?" is a question that greatly devalues the contributions of the individual student. Would you say, "You're a
by mbg721 5y ago
"What proportion (of x ethnic group) would you like?" is a question that greatly devalues the contributions of the individual student. Would you say, "You're a great interview candidate, but we already have a tall guy,"?
- perl4ever 5y agoI was told a story about someone who applied to a school of engineering somewhere or other, in the latter part of the 1950s. She had a sterling high school record, but they wrote a rejection letter explaining that they already had a woman attending the institution. The punch line, as it were, as I recall it, was that "a woman" did not mean one undergraduate woman, but just one, period. So, she went to a much less prestigious and well-known school, majored in math, and ended up being a programmer instead of an engineer. I am not sure if she was bitter about it.
- slavboj 5y agoSurely you're aware that this literally and explicitly happens in the context of college admissions. "We already have a couple tuba players, try Yale."
- kenjackson 5y agoHappens all the time in sports. And really we do it for college too. Except it is “we already have enough comp science majors”.
- thomasz 5y agoDiscrimination happens when you treat equals as unequal, or unequals as equal. There is a world of difference between "we already have enough asian compsci majors", and "we already have enough compsci majors, but there is room for a sociologist".