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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by narrator on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:02PM (#27935603)
One approach to prevent people from drawing racist inferences from standardized test scores or other statistics is to adopt the French policy of not collecting or keeping any race statistics. That would allow us to preserve meritocracy without promoting racism or depriving highly qualified applicants of the limited educational opportunities that will help them contribute the most to society.
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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by JohnL4 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:21PM (#27942189)
That sounds good, but having no demographic stats is the opposite of sunlight. I don't believe it makes systemic racism go away, it just sweeps it under the rug.
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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by narrator on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:41PM (#27943836)
Racism is a belief though. If we can remove a way that people come to the belief through statistical evidence we can make people believe it less. Keeping statistics can only work to provide evidence for the racists that all races are not of equal ability.
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