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It is easy to rage against perceived injustice, but maybe this is just a case of "All predictors become bad if they become the target"? In the end the goal of
by niemandhier 5y ago
It is easy to rage against perceived injustice, but maybe this is just a case of
"All predictors become bad if they become the target"?
In the end the goal of admission processes is to select a certain type of individual. Since some degree of objectivity is needed they created a system that tried to select the desired people based on objectively measurable factors.
Maybe a subset of the american asian culture is over fitting the used predictors, so that in the end the process is not selecting the correct type of person anymore, and they just don't know how to fix it.
- darkerside 5y agoSome people get _more_ angry about systemic racism than the old fashioned personal hatred kind.
- SyzygistSix 5y agoBoth are an issue but they have some different solutions. I would think institutions are ideally set up to reduce the amount of both.
- xvector 5y ago> so that in the end the process is not selecting the correct type of person anymore Whether it's intentional or not, "correct type of person" really does sound like a dog-whistle. TJ, at least, hasn't defined any additional objective measures for said type of person. They are simply lowering the admissions bar to brute-force a reduction of Asians, without describing what quality Asians are supposedly lacking that makes this necessary. It's modern-day systemic racism, but people don't care because it targets a minority that's historically done well for itself.