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> it's just Harvard Since other colleges mouth the same platitudes about the benefits of diversity and the systemic racism they must atone for, Occam's razor d
by car_analogy 4y ago
> it's just Harvard
Since other colleges mouth the same platitudes about the benefits of diversity and the systemic racism they must atone for, Occam's razor demands we assume their admissions are similar unless proven otherwise.
- WalterGR 4y agoThat's not how evidence works.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoThat's not how fruitful discussions work.
- WalterGR 4y agoIf we disagree on what fundamental concepts such as "evidence" and "assertion" mean, and disagree on how burden of proof works, then we wouldn't be having a discussion so much as writing words at each other. Have a good day / night.
- car_analogy 4y agoYou'd like your assertion to be assumed true, and mine to be assumed false until proven beyond reasonable doubt?