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Look up the income statistics. There are very few low income students at Harvard and similar "holistic" universities. It's a school for rich people. MIT cares more about scores and…

What "other goals" and "expectations"? It conveniently falls in line with racial diversity goals but it is unclear what other goals it accomplishes. The reasonable assumption is th…

Don't admission officers actually come from worse educational backgrounds than alumni? I think many AO never reach educational or career heights that would help them appreciate the…

Those admissions processes are actually seen as very fair processes in those countries. IIRC, there is very high economic diversity in the top colleges in China and India which can…

Uniqueness and well-roundedness are traits of privilege. The activities typically used to signal "uniqueness" for college admissions like philanthropy and political activism have r…

That part sounds like a literal race quota. I guess Harvard's defense is that they do most of the "work" at the subjective personality score stage where races are conveniently rank…

It seems unlikely to be unintentional. Since Harvard is grading personality on a USA-centric scale, it would most likely accentuate the traits of the current USA leaders and execut…

> Clark had just turned 27 and left behind an estate valued at more than $4 million. He got to keep the money even though he got convicted for wire fraud?

> Spacex: we can go to Mars, but haven't even launched a Mars rocket. Google: AI is here, and the product? Waymo, logs millions of miles, is just sunny conditions? I don't think th…

> optional things people choose (having children) Note that having children is something that only women choose. Men and women choose to have sex. Women choose to abort or have a c…

Will it? Women who have made public, unproven accusations of sexual harassment seem to be doing just fine

Have you guys applied these more technical/scientific details of the brain to your life?

> A great school and teacher obviously can change the lives of children in poverty but it's astonishingly difficult and requires immense talent to achieve. Teaching children in pov…

The most important methodology of the school: > Like many charter schools in New York City, the Promise Academy has an extended school day and year, with coordinated after-school t…

> mastering an arbitrary test If the test is based on the standard middle/high school curriculum (if there is one), then it can be a fairly good predictor. Otherwise, even if it is…

> it outcompetes payment systems from American tech companies Does it? I think American payment systems are winning outside of China/USA. Of course it won the Chinese market becaus…

> The GDPR is about 68 to 90 pages depending on which language you're reading it in. It is trying to be futureproof by leaving measures defined in terms of 'current state of techno…

That's a solid 50 hours of engineering and QA. At a $75/hr contracting rate, that is $3,750 (50 * $75/hr). And that's just the engineering work. The website owner cannot know wheth…

> Most of these companies do what they can not to pay taxes This applies to all companies, everywhere. The problem is that the EU don't close their loopholes.

If the biased models replace human decision making, then it just has to be shown that the models are less biased than humans which may not be that high of a bar to pass.

The politicization of bias in this realm is unproductive. We know where it leads. There will be 'committees' of people who are not trained in statistical thinking, who haven't even…