Affirmative Action - Where Do You Stand?

I think the proverbial s h i t has hit the fan. We're 50 years into the affirmative action era, and i just think it cannot be allowed to become a permanent and institutionalized manner of functioning. What we want do is assess the relative merits of candidates for a competitive position with more or less objective means. If you select from the right tail and use different cut offs for different population groups, as a consequence, with large numbers, on average, there's going to be significant disparities in the performance of the people after they've been selected. Anaw ogous that i've got, oknow, siplap. But, you know, rather than give a long