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which it's not

Jesus. Do we live in the same reality?

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/07/how_divers...

TL;DR: The Espenshade study found that African chromosomes (by the "one-drop rule") equaled 450 SAT points over Asian chromosomes as a college admissions factor.

(Not that actual genetic testing was used. It probably should be, though. Why encourage race fraud?)

Your link is to a study in which "affirmative action" is used in the sense it was originally implied, not the sense in which it is actually used:

Note that none of these constitute "reverse discrimination," an accusation affirmative action plans often face. In no case was a top-performing man denied a reward if he outperformed everyone else. The main effect the researchers found was an increase in the number of able women willing to participate.




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