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Harvard Prof: Merit-based admissions 'reproduce inequality'

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 2018-09-09 13:10|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 So inequality is because of merit and not priveledge? Good to know.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2018-09-09 13:37|| 2018-09-09 13:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Harrison Bergeron

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-09 13:43|| 2018-09-09 13:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-09-09 14:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-09-09 14:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-09-09 14:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Natasha sez: "Inequality is the new smarts. And we're against both of 'em!"

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-09-09 14:55|| 2018-09-09 14:55|| Front Page Top

#7 How do idiots like this teach?

This "Professor" produces inequality out of his own ass.

Posted by newc 2018-09-09 15:39|| 2018-09-09 15:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Another Harvard racist who wants to keep the filthy Asians out

Posted by Regular joe 2018-09-09 16:01|| 2018-09-09 16:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-09-09 18:59|| Front Page Top

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