Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps

Re:Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions pro... by tomcam on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:40PM (#17466176)

How are they "overrepresented" if they're qualified? All data point to them being underrepresented in terms of their qualifications.

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Re:Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions pro... by lainga on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:00PM (#17466323)

Overrepresented to those who want equality of outcome, not just equality of opportunity.

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Re:Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions pro... by wycs on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:20PM (#17467702)

Then attack the inequality directly. Let us sieze the high IQ alleles and distribute them to the proletariat!

We should not just pretend an equality exists where it does not. East Asians on average are smarter than whites, by about half a standard deviation or more. This explains the disparate outcomes. If you don’t like it subsidize embryo selection. Any ethnic differences can be vastly overwhelmed by iterated embryo selection in the near future.

Don’t put roadblocks in the way of us using what little intelligence we have in the pre-embryo-selection world efficiency.

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Re:Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions pro... by dang on Saturday July 07, 2018 @09:37PM (#17481706)

Please don't do this here.

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Re:Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions pro... by wycs on Saturday July 07, 2018 @10:20PM (#17481832)

Why?

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Re:Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions pro... by dang on Sunday July 08, 2018 @02:57AM (#17482487)

We've learned over the years that ideological rant, as a genre, degrades discussion quality and encourages worse from others.

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