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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ho boy.  If you ever wanted to incentivize the appearance of disadvantage, here it is.  Watch as parents rush to their department store DNA tests to claim "ancestry" in faraway lands in order to claim allegiance to some oppressed minority.  Watch social failings like single-parent households, high crime rates, divorce and abuse become marketable assets.  This is disgusting.[/quote]

Single parent households and divorce are in the same category as high crime rates and abuse?  I disagree with the adversity points, but the upside is that it annoys crazy people like you.  [/quote]

I think the College Board is lumping single parent households and high crime rates.  I believe this is on the neighborhood level that they are doing this.

It's one thing to use these sociological categories at the macro level for research which are proxies for likelihood of risk or advantage.  But another altogether to apply them at the *individual level* to real life decision-making.  Even in research you are supposed to stay within the level of analysis.  If you want to go to the individual unit of analysis, you use fine grained data about *that person* that is *correct* about that person by, say, interviewing them. If you can't get that data, you don't just make general assumptions.  That's profiling.  So the CB is mixing up levels of analysis, applying research categories to real life situations that have consequences, and profiling.  And will make a killing off of college Admissions officers who are suckers and don't know any better.  David Coleman must have gotten like a C- in his intro to Sociology class. But maybe an A+ in Marketing 101.[/quote]

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