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-Land of the Free

Affirmative Action Is Discrimination

2021-07-01

[Citizen Free Press]

If groups differ at the mean and the margin of selection is far in the right tail of an ability distribution, then defining "equity" as consisting in an approximate parity across groups of their presence among the selected is a statistical fool's errand. No good can come of that. pic.twitter.com/cccKD1pCvI

— Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) June 30, 2021

Dr. Glenn Loury has some thoughts on merit.

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— Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) June 30, 2021

Posted by:Chinter Thrailing9515

#9 Read the “Bell Curve” by Herrnstien and Murray. Businesses hire smart people because they are more efficient. Instead of college many people, of all races should take trade school classes. I did that and had a very successful career. About half way thru I went to college, with company.assistance,.

Posted by: Spusonter Elmusonter5916 2021-07-01 23:56

#8 Affirmative Action? I want reparations for white people.

Posted by: JohnQC 2021-07-01 12:55

#7 You don't think that the Left wants to eliminate racism, do you?

Posted by: Angstrom 2021-07-01 12:49

#6 ^My whole point is that it's mostly systemic sexism.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-07-01 12:20

#5 You talk about "systemic racism"...

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-07-01 12:09

#4 Apologies to g(r)om for the above. His "Look at the schools" cmnt was spot on. USPS is yet another example.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-01 09:28

#3 ..government bureaucrats and the uni-party.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-01 09:17

#2 Lets not forget who the main beneficiaries of affirmative action are.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-07-01 08:52

#1 Affirmative Action has been in practice in the US for 50 years. Initially it was pretty useful, e.g., putting out flyers in black neighborhoods to inform people of municipal sponsored summer jobs.

Then it morphed, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, into quotas.

Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-07-01 08:33

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