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| Harvard Prof: Merit-based admissions 'reproduce inequality' |
| 2018-09-09 |
| h/t Instapundit A Harvard University professor claims in a new academic study that merit-based admission processes at elite universities "reproduce inequality." Harvard education professor Natasha Warikoo draws on interviews with 98 white, native-born students at Harvard, Brown University, and the University of Oxford in "What Meritocracy Means to its Winners: Admissions, Race, and Inequality," published in the journal Social Sciences. During interviews Warikoo conducted between 2009 and 2011, these students were asked to sound-off on whether they felt their school had meritocratic admissions and if they supported affirmative action. Many answered the second question affirmatively and hailed the benefits of a diverse student body. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 Easily solved. Go full-on lottery for admissions and for symmetry's sake pass a law that the only "investment" university endowments are allowed to make are lottery tickets. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-09-09 18:59 |
| #8 Another Harvard racist who wants to keep the filthy Asians out |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2018-09-09 16:01 |
| #7 How do idiots like this teach? This "Professor" produces inequality out of his own ass. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-09-09 15:39 |
| #6 Natasha sez: "Inequality is the new smarts. And we're against both of 'em!" |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2018-09-09 14:55 |
| #5 Interestingly, (s)he doesn't address how (s)he arrived at (her)his level of competency. Unequally on merit or equally by gender/skin tone? In my experience, there's considerable overlap between the sets of affirmative action beneficiaries and Dunning Kruger. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-09 14:40 |
| #4 who volunteered to be interviewed? self-identifying SJW guilty Whites and approval-seeking toadies. Nuff said |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-09-09 14:17 |
| #3 Interestingly, (s)he doesn't address how (s)he arrived at (her)his level of competency. Unequally on merit or equally by gender/skin tone? |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-09-09 14:12 |
| #2 Harrison Bergeron |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-09 13:43 |
| #1 So inequality is because of merit and not priveledge? Good to know. |
| Posted by: Rjschwarz 2018-09-09 13:37 |