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A comment on UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors. Parent comment

Re:UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors t... by secondcoming on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:14AM (#24566630)
So is household book count even a valid metric any more, since quite a lot of the world has more information at their fingertips than ever before?
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Re:UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors t... by kube-system on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:14AM (#24568056)
Book count being a predictor isn't the same thing as book count being the cause. It is likely that instead, book count is an easy to measure attribute of a household which has many other correlative factors that contribute to success.
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