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by omonra 3849 days ago
Seems like a pretty ludicrous analysis. Can be summed up as 'If you ban quotas, the people who get in because of quotas will not be as represented'. Uhh - duh? Will they have another post 'What happens when heavy objects are thrown up in the air - do they fall to the ground or float away?'

There is actually a much more interesting analysis of effects of AA on its recipients I read recently here: http://spectator.org/articles/64739/little-understood-engine...
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Lawtonfogle 3849 days ago
I think the argument was 'if you ban quotas based on race in favor of other measure which should still help increase diversity, you don't get as good an effect as just quotas'.

That it is lower shouldn't be surprising, but how much lower or higher than the expected lower might be surprising.

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gareim 3849 days ago
>which should still help increase diversity

I think quotas by income would be a much more interesting experience for college students than quotas by race.

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bduerst 3849 days ago
You would still have people complaining that it's not entirely merit based.

The point is that socioeconomic status (correlated with race and family income) has already impacted someone by the time they reach college application age. The idea behind quotas in public institutions is that it gives opportunity to those who did not have them previously.

A better analysis would be based on graduate performance, rather than admission rates, for demonstrating success.

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yequalsx 3849 days ago
A quote from the article of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor:

"The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."

The salient part being, "further the interest approved today". The U.S. has a long history of dealing with nonwhite in pernicious ways. Part of the remedy has been affirmative action. The claim that affirmative action is no longer necessary because we are all equal is being called into question. If the outcomes of banning affirmative action are worse, in terms of racial disparity, then the aforementioned claim can be called into question.

The analysis is not ludicrous.

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