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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by naveen99 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:17PM (#36522506)
math needs to work out. if you have a 100 people and 50 defined to be poor, but can only admit 5 people. How do you decide which of the 50 poor come first ? The top 5, and you are back to square 1. The bottom 5, and you have the devil's problems. Remember the poorest people, the people with billions in negative wealth, are in jail or worse. You do not want to bring them back to the top !
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by arcticbull on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:34PM (#36522787)
Lottery? Seems to be the foundation of the immigration system.
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by naveen99 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:36PM (#36523776)
Why stop at the students, choose the professors by lottery too, Nih grants by lottery… May as well just burn limited resources. Lottery math doesn’t work. Someone has to fund the lotteries. And lotteries funding lotteries ain’t going to do it. Someone has to actually produce something of value for there to be value to allocate.
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by arcticbull on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:01PM (#36524237)
I think the argument here is that once you've already filtered down to qualified candidates by primary criteria, then you can lottery off the rest instead of performing a secondary sort.
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by naveen99 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:12PM (#36524445)
I guess the secondary sort is reserved for university, with a tertiary sort waiting at the corporate level. the heavy lifting is being done by the sorting, not the lottery at each level.
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