Originally Posted by
hummingbear
Please go ahead and explicitly state that you believe this necessarily requires lowering those objective criteria on behalf of said minority/female candidates.
No one can say that it will, since it hasn’t happened yet. One can only draw parallels to similar initiatives where race and ethnicity was used as a qualifier and objective performance measures were lowered to achieve greater diversity. I previously cited the Princeton studies that showed minorities accepted had a great advantage (performance-wise) on admission to elite undergraduate schools, with average SAT scores several hundred points lower for minorities than their majority counterparts. I also pointed out that the same was true for medical school matriculants based on the public data that AAMC publishes each year on medical school applicants and matriculants. Minority matriculants scored several deciles lower on the MCAT and had significantly lower GPAs on average than their majority and Asian counterparts.
For a more direct comparison, RAND published a study in 2015 researching why minority and female USAF pilot trainees washed out at higher rates than their white male counterparts.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/ran...AND_RR1936.pdf
One of the findings from this study is that nearly all of the failures between male-female and 72 percent of the failures between white-black students could be correlated to pilot aptitude tests predicting their failure. This study did not include USAFA graduates, who did not take the TBAS test.
Ignoring that a lower standard to achieve such a lofty goal is a probability, ignores decades of data.