Early Action vs. Regular Admission

RockySoil
Thu, 16 May 2019 17:19:31 +0000

@cptofthehouse LOL that is a great analogy. No tin hat scenarios, just regular people in a tough job being biased in the regular human way. And in many cases not realizing they are doing it.

Reminds me a study of sentencing in courtrooms in Israel. The scientists wanted to see if they could identify variables that impacted how likely the judges were to give parole. After studying dozens of possible influences (gender, race, age, etc.) they found the variable with by far the highest correlation - the length of time since the judge had last taken a break and eaten. First thing in the morning the chances of parole were about 65%. Just before lunch or at the end of the day, nearly zero.