Why is there crapshot in MIT admissions???

[molliebatmit]

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@ramaswami

molliebatmit, were you trying to say “nothing wrong with an application that leads to non-selection”?

Oh dear, yes. Don’t listen to me before I have my Mountain Dew in the morning.</p>

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@GasparLewis

Matt pretty much echoed Mollie to the letter, except he said 75% instead of 70.

I would say that Mollie is echoing Matt, a little more accurately. :)</p>

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@ramaswami

I am convinced by the data provided by Jensen and Murray. Racial differences in intelligence are significant and we must be open to the possiblity that they are not the result of environment alone. Something else is at work. Possibly genetic.

Do we really have to start this again? Nobody doubts the data – it’s there. It exists. But most (non-right-wing) people disagree with Jensen/Herrnstein/Murray’s fabulous confusion of correlation with causation. If IQ is genetic and meaningful, then why is it more heritable among high-SES individuals than low-SES individuals?</p>

<p>Don’t even get me started on Watson. He’s just an offensive human being.</p>