Re: Justification for the SAT

[Victor Steinbok <Victor.Steinbok@VERIZON.NET>]

At 9:34 AM -0400 9/1/01, Stephen McGinnis wrote:
> The latest Department of Education data shows that the college attendance
> gender gap is 56%-44% and widening.   As a result, it is particularly
> appropriate to begin to examine the gender diversity of the student body (as
> many institutions are currently doing) and to examine the use of biased
> assessments in the admission process.  (In fact there have been several
> reports of institutions adding to male applicants GPA and/or subtracting from
> female students GPA to counter the effects of grade bias.)  However, the
> optimum solution would be to address the gender bias inherent in the grading
> process.

When we have 51%-49% MF split among car mechanics, construction
workers and most of municipal maintenance workers (including
policemen and firemen), then we'll talk about seeing why it is not
the same among college students. Most of these people enter these
"professions" by choice and not because of rejections by colleges.
Apparently it has never occurred to people who make these arguments
that there may be perfectly objective reasons for not having
"proportional" representation of the general population, rather than
grade-based bias.

       VS-)

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