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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My personal philosophy that has served me well is.. never hire a professional that is a product of AA. The standards were lowered too much, commitment and capacity is not either. The few times I went to doctors for emergencies, the AA candidate proved my philosophy right. [/quote]

You obviously never went to law school or medical school.  My experience and my husband's experience is that you should never underestimate your minority classmates because if you are looking for them to be on the left side of the bell curve in IQ or grades or work ethic, they're probably going to clock you from the right.  Idiot lawyers and less than smart doctors abound, but it has nothing to do with AA.

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but standardized tests such as SAT, ACT, MCAT, LSAT are IQ tests in disguise.  The SAT scores for AA students at Harvard can be approximately 400-500 lower in SAT than non-AA students.[/quote]

No.  They were developed to be a proxy for IQ but that is no longer true with all of the prepping.  For example, kids that raise their scores 200-300 points (which is not unheard of) did not suddenly get smarter.  The higher score the second time is attributable to prep and exposure, not a rise in IQ.  It would be more informative to compare unprepped, first time scores.[/quote]

Numerous studies have shown that prepping has a minimal impact on outcomes.  IQs were on a steady rise in this country until relatively recently when they've flattened and begun to decline.  The number one cause is that unintelligent people are having more children while intelligent people are having fewer.  You are obviously one of the former.[/quote]

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