[373] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Big Rant: Political correctness, Aff. Action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M Nelson)
Mon Apr 30 23:56:06 2001
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To: anneh@eecs.MIT.EDU, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:53:20 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:55:51 -0400
From: Justin M Nelson <jmnelson@MIT.EDU>
in response to anne's words about reading applications:
key word here is reading applications, not choosing. correct me if i am wrong, but that mean you were reading essays and assigning a value to those essays/apllications. this means that how anne graded these essays/applications went on record as probably an index number i would guess or a written evaluation. perhaps i just misunderstood the wording but this is what it seems to me. this means that this has absolutely nothing to do with the process of selection that (i cant remember his name) suggested about the piles and how applicants were chosen from them. all this means is that the numbers are equally assigned for the people who choose to choose from. it is in this process that affirmative action takes place. once again perhaps i just completely misunderstood and you were in fact on the committee that made the final decision of who was getting in but it seemed like you were making a reference to giving an index to the essay. noone ever stated that an advantage was giv!
en here.
as far as your list of 100 people and that everyone you thought wasnt qualified didnt get in. i would have to ask about how many on the lis that you thought were qualified didnt get in. (going by your stats of your personal opinion and how many people get in here) out of the 100, you would think 85 were qualified to make it but out of those 100, only 16 would get in. basic statistics and some good ole commen sense would see its quite easy for you to make the claim that noone got in that you didnt think was qualified. the question remains whether some people who didnt get in were more qualified than those that did. that was not answered at all (im not attacking you on this. it's rather obvious such a judgement is almost impossible from someone who saw such a limited part of the application)
justin
"i will attack and question your argument with no pretense of authority"
aristotle
