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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by skyde on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:49AM (#31604702)
About education, it’s a hard choice.

option 1:No affirmative action: 50% of white are legacy and all other student art there on merits

option 2: affirmative action: 100% of white students are legacy 0% are on merits and 50% of all other race are accepted because of merit

I picked some random number for option 2 but i assume you see the problem.

Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by michaelmrose on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:50PM (#31614121)
The problem here is that you think you can come to a reasonable conclusion without actual numbers AFTER actual numbers were given clearly. The current situation is that we have massive affirmative action for white people and no plans on getting rid of it.
Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by skyde on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:23PM (#31616316)
one easy way to get rid of it (for university) is to force them to accept new student only on score to a test for example: GRE, SAT ...

If this is done you cannot say the university are racist anymore.

If they decide to do this, there will be a lot more asian at Ivy league university because on average they score much better.

As someone who is not asian I would still be 100% OK with this because this would be they only accept base on merit.

But people will still complain there is an equal proportion of student from each race.

Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by michaelmrose on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:10PM (#31670528)
Do you actually believe that there is a standardized test that can fully quantify who the next generation of doctors and engineers will be with no human judgement involved?