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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The true intention here was never to diversify. The lottery / quota has great optics, but has proven time and time again, to lead to worse outcomes for the very demographic it pretends to be helping.

One good case study to explore is affirmative action for law students. A study published in the Stanford Law review found that "Affirmative action thus artificially depresses, quite substantially, the rate at which blacks pass the bar." This led to fewer black lawyers in the workforce. "....If all preferences were abolished, the data in Part VIII suggests that the number of black attorneys emerging from the class of 2004 would be 7% larger than it is.... and the number of black attorneys passing the bar on their first attempt would be 20% larger.".
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Maybe the exam to pass the bar is discriminating. We know for a fact that math is discriminating, SAT is discriminating, STEM is discriminating, it won’t be a surprise.[/quote]

Yes let’s have a lottery to select lawyers with all the law school grads. No different than what they are proposing. [/quote]

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