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The end result is that he is not as good as someone who had money and good teacher. The author can try to rationalize the fact that she is the female token all
by dudul 11y ago
The end result is that he is not as good as someone who had money and good teacher.
The author can try to rationalize the fact that she is the female token all she wants. The fact is 'potential' is worthless, what matters is realization.
- diamondcutter 11y agoI doubt you really believe that. Eg, if I told you for sure that the kid with the good teacher was going to be less good than the kid with a bad teacher a year from now, surely you would choose the kid with the bad teacher. In the same way that you would choose the star athlete with an injured leg because he would be excellent once he had healed.
- drelnisj 11y agoHow would you judge that, though? And how much 'potential' is actually realised by the place you go to - faculty and facilities influence outcome (access to supercomputers, for example) and maybe the only thing distinguishing a good student from stanford and someone from maryland is the bias in faculty: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005. In that case, most potential candidates are virtually similar, and some sort of affirmative action is required to balance out the gender pool.