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You know theres a shit ton of poor white people right? Its like people dont know that or something.

The DEI org at my company sent a mail out a few months ago saying how much the wage gap was between blacks and whites are, which is funny given that now Asian women have average higher wage than white men

The average wage gap is driven by billionaires. Poor blacks and whites are all....poor. And theres no need to measure the tallest midget even if theres a slight difference after you net out the .1% who drag up the averages for whites.

That’s not how medians work

Im well aware of how medians work (1 type of average). The gaps are often calculated by the mean.

Specifically a lot more poor white people than spots available in these schools. Asians are a “problem” taking up too many spots and are doing this from a position of only being 6% of the United States. Whites make up 57% of the United States.

This means you can easily fill these schools 100% with white students if you use only income as the proxy.

I personally believe the only fair course of action is admission by merit and then attack anyone racial disparities seem in each years admission at a different place in the pipeline.

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