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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine if schools like Harvard rejected black male candidates because admissions staff gave them negative personality scores for things like ‘probably prone to violence’ and ‘most likely to act unruly and without discipline in the classroom’.  How outrageous would that be?  Of course it’d be despicable to reject a black man for negative personality scores based on racial stereotypes like that.  So why should we tolerate that crap but for Asians?  And you wonder why Asians are upset when Affirmative Action setup a system where they have to be judged in their personality, which ended up being based on racial stereotypes of their perceived behavior.  I can’t believe we even need to discuss this.  Affirmative Action should have died a long time ago based on the monstrosity it morphed into. Maybe at first it had merit, but it just ended up becoming a race based system using stereotypes to judge people. [/quote]

You are just making shit up. No one used an Asian stereotype of personality. They are giving points to students who are engaged in activities and organizations and community causes, as they should. The ability to contribute to group projects and engage with other people is a valuable asset and skill. Plenty of Asian kids are involved in activities and get the deserved boost for it. Antisocial hermits do not contribute as much to a school or to society, no matter their race or test scores. [/quote]

The personality ranking was completely made up, used as a front to discriminate against asians, and had no basis in reality.  Pasting what was posted before:

When comparing applicants with the same level of academic achievement, Asians always had the worst personality scores of any group. The SFFA constructed an index based on Harvard’s academic rating and used it to divide applicants into 10 evenly-sized groups (deciles) based on the strength of their academic performance. Within each of the 10 academic deciles, Asians had the lowest personality scores across all of the racial groups. A perfect 10 for 10.

Within each racial group, high academic performance strongly predicted high personality ratings, but Asians had the lowest average personality rating even though they had the highest average academic rating.

In contrast, [b]Harvard alumni rated Asians similar to whites on personality and better, on average, than Latinos and blacks. But it is the admissions office, not alumni, that ultimately determines Harvard’s personality ratings[/b].

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3704542...cult-of-personality/
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You don’t understand statistics. The average score is not the score for every member of the group. Some Asians had higher scores, some had average, some had low. They were rated as individuals based on the evidence in their files, not given a default Asian rating. It could just be that some Asians did not promote their personalities and activities and quirks as much as many other applicants did. [/quote]

Explain how the alumni ranked Asians better in personality than Latinos and Blacks but the admissions office gave those Asians lower rankings.

Explain how it’s not racism without making out hypothetical personal experiences.

I’ll get my popcorn ready. [/quote]

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