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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A community with variety of backgrounds, race, religion, ability, status, interests,hobbies, geography, strengths and weaknesses is a much better environment to enrich young minds than some monolithic echo chamber.[/quote]

The benefits of "diversity" for factors unrelated to talent is mostly a myth. There is basically no benefit to "diversity" preferences in hiring or admission for non-creative fields after you control for publication bias in the research. However, the data is very strong to indicate that standardized test scores are a strong predictor of future academic and professional performance.  This trend of holistic admissions for medical school is especially concerning to me because prioritizing nebulous "diversity" factors over merit will literally kill people. The test scores on these tests are directly correlated with patient outcomes. Range restriction makes this relationship appear smaller than it actually is because the least qualified people are filtered through multiple rounds of exams. If you want to consider diversity for art school or literary arts school fine, but it should play no role in admissions/employment decisions for medical professionals or engineers where mistakes kill people.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/high-board-exam-scores-linked-to-reduced-patient-deaths.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37816217/
https://www.aamc.org/media/78266/download
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