academicthrow

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   by academicthrow 6y ago

   "If your admissions criteria gives "bonus points" to people of a certain race, a randomly chosen person who was admitted of that race will be weaker than people not of that race." Please point out the flaw(s) in my rea
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   by academicthrow 6y ago

   My other response was flagged for a part that was distracting to the main point, so I'm going to repost it without that part: If you've been in academia for awhile you've seen this happen time and time again. Student does exc
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   by academicthrow 6y ago

   It might be true that she faced more hurdles than her white peers to get to where she is. That is irrelevant to the question of whether she was weaker than her peers. That is a simple statistical problem: If your program has lower admission