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Re:‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores... by betterunix2 on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:08AM (#17644137)
"What's going to happen to campus social life if half the class has a history of not being social at all?"

Sorry but what makes you think students with stellar grades have no social life? My memory of my four years at an "elite" NYC high school is that the students with the best grades (I was not even close) were just as social as the rest of us and participated in plenty of after school clubs and whatnot (more than I did).

"Who's going into investment banking to pull down big bonuses 10 years from now?"

Ironically that is a career path with a reputation for attracting anti-social psycopaths (but maybe this is a myth -- after all, Harvard admissions committees are there to find the applicants who proved their pro-social personalities by participating in exactly the sort of extracurriculars Harvard is looking for).

"No one is out to discriminate against asian people, their applications are just very problematic at scale."

The simple version of that sentence would be of the form, "I am not racist, but [racist statement]."

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Re:‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores... by totalZero on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:08PM (#17645487)
Investment banking is a highly social business. Everyone lies and there is a lot of manipulation, but social skills help you navigate that world.
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Re:‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores... by mikec3010 on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:31AM (#17645128)
> The simple version of that sentence would be of the form, "I am not racist, but [racist statement]."

So regardless of intent, it's conclusively, unequivocally "racist" if the outcome of a selection process doesn't fall perfectly within a normal distribution?

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