tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post116334926988551177..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: The ugly truthSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1164222629988327682006-11-22T14:10:00.000-05:002006-11-22T14:10:00.000-05:00Thank you, Steve.Ugly, ugly, ugly. We need to be ...Thank you, Steve.<BR/><BR/>Ugly, ugly, ugly. We need to be much disturbed and active in changing this.<BR/><BR/>anneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1163676089528104522006-11-16T06:21:00.000-05:002006-11-16T06:21:00.000-05:00There is much armwaving on this issue at the blog ...There is much armwaving on this issue at the blog half sigma<BR/><BR/>http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/11/asian_kid_with_.html#commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1163646302068114702006-11-15T22:05:00.000-05:002006-11-15T22:05:00.000-05:00Hey Anonymous! I have ANOTHER Harvard story. Wel...Hey Anonymous! I have ANOTHER Harvard story. Well, I spent eight years living in Cambridge, I ought to have Harvard stories. <BR/><BR/>So, this one is about Abbot Lawrence Lowell, the last president of Harvard to maintain a hard line against the Jews. And this was basically along the lines you posit - narrow-chested intellectuals, unhealthy predilections and interests, as opposed to our Bay Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1163645266519540832006-11-15T21:47:00.000-05:002006-11-15T21:47:00.000-05:00To the last commenter: read the Inside Higher Ed a...To the last commenter: read the Inside Higher Ed article about the internal Stanford study. Whites with *comparable* academic and leadership qualifications were admitted at *significantly* higher rates than their Asian counterparts. We're talking about race here as the independent variable, pure and simple.<BR/><BR/>Any university is free to set their admission standards however they want. They Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1163642408130660392006-11-15T21:00:00.000-05:002006-11-15T21:00:00.000-05:00>So it's okay and valid to stereotype Asian-Americ...<< Federal investigators also found that Harvard admissions staff had stereotyped Asian-American candidates as quiet, shy and oriented toward math and science. >><BR/><BR/>So it's okay and valid to stereotype Asian-Americans as smarter than the rest of the population, but it's not okay to stereotype them in less desirable ways? If we posit that there is a difference in intelligence between ethnicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1163529547420747532006-11-14T13:39:00.000-05:002006-11-14T13:39:00.000-05:00Dave: that last part is all well and good, except....Dave: that last part is all well and good, except... the ASU grad is destined to make just as much money as the Yale grad, assuming he or she is as good of a student. Hence the study showing that those who were accepted at the top elite schools (Yale, for instance) but chose to go elsewhere do just as well, as measured by income, as their counterparts who went for the prestige. (Slight exception Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1163420973663507672006-11-13T07:29:00.000-05:002006-11-13T07:29:00.000-05:00First, a story: in the 80s, I was a member of Firs...First, a story: in the 80s, I was a member of First Parish Unitarian in Harvard Square, and one of the members was a gent in his late 70s who had worked in Harvard admissions as a young man. And he told me: we started requiring photographs. To screen against too many Jews. They would change their names from 'Cohen'. But we had a saying in the office: 'They can change the "Moses", but they Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-1163373332405119912006-11-12T18:15:00.000-05:002006-11-12T18:15:00.000-05:00Oh no! I have been beat to the punch. The library ...Oh no! I have been beat to the punch. The library closes early on Fridays so I never get to check the WSJ for college-related issues usually until sundays. As it stands I have this same article open up on my screen here and a response half-done in my editor. <BR/><BR/>Tsk tsk tsk for reprinting the whole article here... :p<BR/><BR/>My response to the article will be up late tonight or sometime Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com