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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a link to a story I heard on NPR a couple of days ago.  The researchers sent 6500 "impeccably written" letters to over 6000 professors at 250 top universities claiming to be students requesting mentoring.  The letters were identical but the student names were different.  What they found was that white male students had the most success getting a response.  The women and minorities had the least success.  The group with the lowest success rate: Asian students.

Here's a quote from the story transcript: 
"I spoke to Katherine Milkman at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She conducted the study with Modupe Akinola and Dolly Chugh. And Milkman told me she was especially struck by the experience of Asian students. Here she is.

KATHERINE MILKMAN: We see tremendous bias against Asian students and that's not something we expected. So a lot of people think of Asians as a model minority group. We expect them to be treated quite well in academia, and at least in the study and in this context we see more discrimination against Indian and Chinese students that against other groups"

As the parent of a hard-working and high-performing Asian (female) student, I find this very discouraging.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814367/evidence-of-racial-gender-biases-found-in-faculty-mentoring
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Small setbacks on the path to global domination.  Cry me a river. [/quote]

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