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> Lowering the admission bar for one person means that, all things equal, someone better qualified is excluded This assumes there's some objective way to stack
by kajecounterhack 3y ago
> Lowering the admission bar for one person means that, all things equal, someone better qualified is excluded
This assumes there's some objective way to stack rank high school students by potential, and there's not. At some point exclusive schools like Harvard just shape their student populations to an arbitrary standard. How do you compare GPAs at 10,000 different schools for example? Is a 1550 student who started a company more or less valuable than a 1600 student who won a science fair?
- hellojesus 3y agoAgreed, ranking is not purely quantitative. However, your example strives to compare two different dimensions of achievement. There is no achievement in immutable characteristics. There may be achievement based on overcoming obstacles that present due to immutables, but the immutable is not evidence enough of achievement. Any prospect can achieve either of your two examples. People can't do anything to boost their chances if we boost based off of skin color.