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<p>I haven’t read the original article, but there is no indication that confounding variables have been removed from the summary you provided.</p>
<p>Have legacy, development cases, and athletic recruits been removed from the analysis? I doubt it. These groups have lower scores and they have far more whites than Asians. </p>
<p>Your statement implies that if an unhooked Asian American and white person apply to the ivy league, the Asian American needs to score 140 points higher to have an equal chance. That’s false. You could argue that it’s discrimination by so-called “disparate impact,” but not straight discrimination. (BTW, there may be discrimination, but these statistics aren’t enough to draw conclusions.)</p>
<p>Statistics can’t just be taken at face value. You have to ask how they did the analysis to assess the results. Otherwise it’s just propaganda.</p>