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The Los Angeles Times is running an article describing the challenges faced by Asian Americans as they apply for acceptance to top colleges.
The article describes the impact that their race and ethnicity has on their SAT scores:
Lee's next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth.
She points to the first column. African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.
She points to the second column. “Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”
The last column draws gasps. Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.
“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college? The answer is yes,” Lee says.
A core tenet of the American philosophy, even from before the days of the Founding Fathers, is that through hard work and excellence one should be able to obtain success in life. But is this ideal even possible when certain underachieving groups are given artificial advantages, while those with the most merit are artificially held back?
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 02 2015, @03:19PM
Programming is all about knowing when to boil the orange sponge donkey across the phillipines with an orangutang gorilla crossed with a ham sandwich to the fourth power of twelve across the nile with an awful headache from the previous night when all of alfred's naughty jalapeno peppers frog-marched the nordic elves across the loom-lined geronimo induced swamp donkey over and above the fortran fortified kilomanjaro fence past the meticulously crafted anti disgusting sponge cake scenario where all the hats doth quoteth the milk which is not unlike the super werewolf from the infinite realm of ninja-step. it's hard to define, really.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 4, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 02 2015, @03:20PM
I am also an idiot for posting this to the wrong article.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Monday March 02 2015, @06:08PM
I assume the right article was the one about Markov chains, but you still would have been posting random nonsense. So, umm, not much worse to do it here.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 02 2015, @11:51PM
Yeah, I should have linked the text to Coding Horror [codinghorror.com] as well. This was the first Markov Chain that I have ever read and I always think of it when someone asks me "what is programming?"
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday March 02 2015, @08:26PM
That's OK. This is about the only thread in the comments that didn't at some point accelerate me a bit faster down the road to Aneurysm City.