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To play devils advocate: If you think all ethnicities are equal, a quota system makes perfect sense. If all ethnicities are equal, the differences in admission
by rhino369 12y ago
To play devils advocate:
If you think all ethnicities are equal, a quota system makes perfect sense. If all ethnicities are equal, the differences in admissions must be the result of error, bias, or discrimination.
Asians/whites are just forcing their kids to prep better for SAT. The SAT may be biased. Grades in high school are biased.
Admissions criteria are actually biased (don't even have to play devils adovate here). Vice President (one of 55!) of the junior Sailing Club looks better than guy who picks teams at the local basketball hoop. Playing Violin looks better than freestyle rapper.
- gambiting 12y ago" If all ethnicities are equal, the differences in admissions must be the result of error, bias, or discrimination." No, if all ethnicities are equal, then having 100% of Asians or 100% of black or white people doesn't mean anything. If black people are just as good as white people(and they are!) then we shouldn't care about the split being 50/50 - any split is good enough, because the color of your skin literally doesn't matter. >>Asians/whites are just forcing their kids to prep better for SAT. and this sort of generalization is racist all by itself.
- kenjackson 12y agoWhat the original poster is saying though is that if they are all equal, then differences must be either though some bias or just random chance. With consistent disparity it is more likely to be bias. So to counter this a quota system makes sense. Of course we know both that a quota system won't fly and skin color matters a lot in virtually everything we do. We're at a great lose-lose scenario.