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Kim A. Berry <kberry@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> writes:

	Then where do we draw the line on race-norming?

		HELP WANTED: Programmer by major Silicon Valley
		Employer. 3.0 GPA 3+ years exp (if asian applicant, GPA
		must be 3.35; Black appicants must have 2.2 GPA and 1+
		year exp...)

	And which race would yell the loudest if positions on College
	football teams were race-normed, allowing only 12% of the team
	to be black?

I'm not sure where to "draw the line" but I know that these two
exapmles are very far from what I was talking about.  On your
programming team, or your football team, you want the very best.  So
you take the best you can get with what you have.

At a Major University, you don't necessarily have a good understanding
of what "best" means, and in the absence of a good metric, you can fall
back to statistical means which are biassed against socio-economic
classes and racial minorities.  So, a little "race-norming" (as well as
"class-norming") goes a long way to *un-biassing* this process.

One very good measure of "best" at a University can be diversity.  How
do you study for the diversity test?

/jordan