How exactly is this relevant?
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Replying to @acorn_pat @charlesmurray
A: Crime rate has been going down last decade nationwide. B: No! My neighbor's car just got stolen yesterday! It was in a good neighborhood too! Gotcha!
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Replying to @x_belief @charlesmurray
Either I'm dense or you've completely confused what I said. B should read: My neighbors car got stolen yesterday in a good neighborhood. I warned him not to park it there even though all of my research has indicated that he would be safe wherever he parks (on average).
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Also your analogy is bunk. It doesn't take into account the alleged intellectual superiority of Asians. To take that into account, the car should be a rundown station wagon.
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Replying to @acorn_pat @charlesmurray
I don't understand your point here. As far as college entrance goes, superior grades, test scores and extra curricular activities of Asians as a group is not in dispute. But that's perceived as disadvantage by Harvard to the individual Asian. That's the problem.
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Replying to @x_belief @charlesmurray
We know that now, he didn't know that in the 80s. The rundown car has a lower chance of being stolen, just like how an Asian, according to the bell curve, has a lower chance of being discriminated against.
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Replying to @acorn_pat @charlesmurray
Again, what you say is true in general. But you are comparing that to Harvard which is a specific case. Fewer people knew Harvard discriminates against Asians in the 80s but it's not completely unknown. Murray would be in the first 1000 to know.
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Replying to @x_belief @charlesmurray
1987 is before the bell curve came out, if he knew about this sort of discrimination back then, why was it never mentioned as a contributing factor in his book?
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Replying to @acorn_pat @x_belief
Um, Patrick. There's a long chapter about it. With numbers and everything.
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Replying to @charlesmurray @x_belief
Which chapter? I'd like to look back over it.
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You opened the table of contents and didn't see the chapter titled "Affirmative Action in Higher Education"?
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Replying to @charlesmurray @x_belief
Unfortunately I forgot to bring my copy with me to work today
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