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Re: Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to fairly choose students

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But isn't that really the issue at hand? You have different data points from the person you replied to. That means that you are both correct, for some subset of people. But do your data points generalize to the larger population, or does the other person's? I don't think these conversations need to devolve. Where are the large-scale studies that show that your data point is the one that's the most common? I'm willing…

The problem is you have people who have anecdotal experience that says whites don’t act in racist ways. I have a bunch of data that I could drop here (100s of sources that say otherwise). I’ve seen these debates online before and I’ve never seen a single opinion changed. The problem is the things being challenged for many (of not most or virtually all) people is their identity and morality. Not simply an experiment a…

Of course there are whites that act in racist ways, but it is a very significant accusation that all white act in racist ways, are driven by racist motives, or even that a significant fraction of whites are (poor whites).

When you make such a significant claim denigrating an entire people, you better have evidence. For example, in recent studies I’ve seen, whites have the LEAST in group bias (bias towards their own race), and blacks have the most BY FAR. Whites were the only group that even showed net out group bias (white liberals). At a glance, that suggests to me that whites are the least likely to be racist across the board, often to the point of racism towards their own race.

Re: Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to fairly choose students

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Definitely not true for UC. Had a friend whose mom is a professor there. There wasn't anywhere to indicate this. Privates ask about alumni connection, and possibly about teaching connection. But not the public schools. Regardless what you've mentioned isn't proof that this is why so many get in. The fact is that kids of PhDs are likely to have genetic and educational advantages. That is likely much of the reason that…

It is rampant in private schools. UC is a public school.

I mentioned UC because GP claimed public schools in CA do this. They don't.

I checked Stanford's admission forms [1] and there is nowhere to even report this. They link to the Common App and don't have forms that ask about where your parents work.

1: https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/first-year/index.html

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