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Re:Jewish Problems (2011) by babesh on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:59PM (#28137424)
If there is a positive correlation between admission standards and graduate ability, what you have done is lowered the average but left it above the bar (assuming that the bar isn't curved).

There is still the question as to whether certain admission standards are actually correlated with graduate ability. I wonder if there is a way to find out?

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Re:Jewish Problems (2011) by rablackburn on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:57AM (#28140084)
You mean if there is a positive causation ;)

But yeah, I think the difficulty of sociology makes it tough to reason about these issues in a comprehensive, logical way. And it's so hard to experimentally prove _anything_ when proving the counterfactual is "well, we'd need to split reality into two and wait 50 years".

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