Specifically, it was invented because Jewish people performed too well on objective metrics and of course we cannot have too many Jews. So they did away with th

Specifically, it was invented because Jewish people performed too well on objective metrics and of course we cannot have too many Jews. So they did away with those pesky objective metrics and came up with an opaque system that no one could easily audit but at the same time they could easily apply their racial biases On a completely separate and unrelated note Harvard is also getting rid of objective metrics now.