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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Liberal/Leftist

Disparity equals discrimination. To prove discrimination you just have to show disparity between POC outcomes and white outcomes. That provides prima facie evidence of discrimination (Voting rights, criminal justice and many other categories)

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Hmm, so what about the consistent disparity in personality scores given by Harvard to Asians compared to other races? (The district court found quote, ‘a statistically significant and negative relationship between Asian American identity and the personal rating assigned by Harvard admissions officers.’)

Liberal: (Read Waxman, Harvard lawyer) "the record will not allow a full explanation for that." .... "But we don't discriminate"

Such duplicity. Such Hypocrisy.

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This one is hard because it's an opinion. They may have truly thought the applicant wasn't a good fit or they may have used it to reduce the numbers. Hard to say with the data presented. If there was a more concrete measure it would be easier to link to discrimination.[/quote]

Honestly, this is not a popular opinion but for some applicants it may be cultural presentation (not saying that is right or fair).  I was recently interviewing and hiring for a role in Hong Kong.  It was a struggle to get colleagues to fairly consider people of a Chinese or HK ethnicity.  They gravitated toward the expat candidates.  The constant feedback about the HK or Chinese candidates was that they were not “dynamic.”  I think it was cultural bias and I had to call it out.

I get it that many of the applicants to college would not fall in this category because they are culturally American but I wonder if there are some that present culturally as the job applicants I interviewed.  The bias was so clear in our interview feedback, although folks were not understanding why they did not find the candidates dynamic and relatable.[/quote]

If the problem was "cultural presentation" in terms of how the applicants conducted themselves, how come the interviews who **actually met them** gave them scores on par with applicants of other races, but the admissions people in the office docked then for personality?[/quote]

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