My gripe with most takes on the affirmative action debate is that they completely ignore this issue (in spite of the Berkeley case-study). It's trivial to take

My gripe with most takes on the affirmative action debate is that they completely ignore this issue (in spite of the Berkeley case-study). It's trivial to take a set of admissions data and partition it by race to reveal a "racial bias", which would shrink or disappear if other factors correlated with race (like income) were accounted for.