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<p>Do I think your repeated references to “China Pride guerillas [sic]” and “China Pride warriors” are childish? Yes. Does that mean I always disagree with you? No.</p>
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<p>Oh this is funny. You maintain that “NOTHING HAPPENED as a result of the ban on race in California, where white vs Asian comparisons are concerned” (direct quote). So if Antonovics and Backes show that the estimated change in admissions probability for Asians relative to whites after Proposition 209 all else equal is statistically nonzero at five out of eight UC schools and positive in four of the five schools, their results must be “statistical noise”!</p>
<p>There is no rule anywhere that “1-2 percent effects…are small [and] nearly meaningless.” There’s a reason we compute standard errors instead of solely eyeballing the coefficients and asking ourselves whether the results are “statistical noise.”</p>