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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by sokoloff on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:47AM (#30526252)
And when you find that x% of XYZ passing the minimum score isn’t exactly the same x% of XYZ in the population, what then?
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by lordnacho on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @07:09AM (#30526433)
"We didn't make the test. The bar is lower so more of every group passes. Fate decides who gets in, we don't add or remove anything based on legacy or donations etc."
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by BeFlatXIII on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @07:52AM (#30526768)
To how many decimal points are you measuring “exactly”?
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by sokoloff on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:46AM (#30527224)
In the cases cited in the article, I strongly suspect “zero decimal places of percentage” is sufficient to show discrepancies (that discrepancies of full percentage point or more will be present, given the admissions rate for one group changed from 73% to under 50%).
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