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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another dumb .. idea from liberals. It doesn't matter what the context is for your scores. You either belong at an institution because of your profile or don't because you are not prepared for that institution. Mismatching you with an institution based on context will only mean you will graduate with some easy nonsense major.

Do sports teams contextualize performance?  How about the Olympics? Would you contextualize health results from your surgeon or your maid or lawnmower or plumber? Of course not. That would be ridiculous. In every other field, you might sympathize with context, but only actual performance and not potential matters.

But loony liberals can't help themselves. They want to socially engineer academia[/quote]

Yeah, I can see what is slowly happening with the US universities. They're all going to end up dumbed down just like our public schools.

It's like all of society is being dumbed down to the lowest common denominator in the interests of being "fair".

And I don't see anyone insisting that the NBA contain at least x% of non-AA men, by the way. It's just who is the best for the job. Which generally happens to be AA men in that case. Where is the adversity adjustment for basketball? Shouldn't short, un-athletic guys get some sort of advantage? It's not their fault that they're short.[/quote]

You are out of your mind.

US Colleges today are more full of super-smart, well-prepared and dedicated students than ever.  It's not debatable.

The only thing being "dumbed-down" is this forum.[/quote]

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