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"well-rounded students" You're begging the question of whether or not Asian students are well-rounded. You just assume that, for the most part, they are not,
by carguy1983 15y ago
"well-rounded students"
You're begging the question of whether or not Asian students are well-rounded. You just assume that, for the most part, they are not, and that it makes perfect sense to throw most of them out because they're all the same.
- tesseractive 15y agoI don't think anyone's assuming anything of the kind -- or if they are, they're both wrong and offensive. Go up a couple of posts, and the question was whether a gap in average test scores is sufficient to determine that there is bias. If there are other non-quantitative criteria such as being "well-rounded", then the answer is no -- we can't make any sort of statement about bias from test scores alone. Whether the subset of Asian students that applies to a particular school is more or less rounded and displays a more or less diverse array of talents than the subset of students of another ethnicity that applies to that school is an empirical question that I don't think any of us should hazard any guesses on without seeing some actual data. If there is data available on the topic, I would love to be able to review it.