Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process

Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by JamesBarney on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:57PM (#21131774)

You're misreading the statistics. If students are admitted in a race blind way then you get 16 times as many Asians as African Americans. He's just arguing they're not 16x more likely to be leaders than African Americans.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by anonu on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:50PM (#21133094)

This article is really interesting. I'm not quite sure what to make of it. it feels borderline bigoted, basing it's entire argument on some unmeasurable "return to the average".

Also not sure why the parent user is posting it multiple times. Not cool...

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by changchuming on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:04PM (#21133149)

7 day account. Not gonna say it's a troll but I'm suspicious.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by richmunk567 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @01:01AM (#21133559)

On average, everyone returns to the average. This is about the _rate_ of cognitive development. And it's easy to measure with standard tests. Obviously there are a ton of accomplished Asians in America, its just more difficult to identify them in adolescence. There' nothing bigoted about that.

Sorry for posting it a lot, its just relevant to what I wanted to say in my other comments.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by dang on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:29AM (#21134099)

We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That is against the site guidelines and destroys the curiosity that this site exists for, regardless of what you're fighting for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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