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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 12:05:19 EDT
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> Or how about *complain* about not getting a chance, as opposed to actu-
> ally getting a chance?  There's a wide enough middle group and gray area
> of talent that it really doesn't matter *who* gets selected from it, from
> the point of view, say, of university admissions and resulting overall
> quality.  There's a myth that everyone can be ranked by SAT scores or the
> like, and one just takes the top XXX, and that way one is "fair".  Frank-
> ly, considering that SAT scores have a +/- 50(?) accuracy attached, and a
> strong positive correlation to family income , there is no basis for even
  ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
> choosing among the middle by *any* objective "fair" means.  So what's wrong
> with being generous to minorities in the process?  It's not as if quality
> is going to drop or anything, Ayn Rand notwithstanding.
> 
> ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

This (^^'ed part) would be a argument for being generous to students from lower
income families.  The assumption that "minority" == "lower income" is not
always correct.