{"id":343,"date":"2003-02-22T18:53:21","date_gmt":"2003-02-22T22:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=343"},"modified":"2007-03-17T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T20:42:32","slug":"differential-cutoff-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Differential Cutoff Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com\/dct.htm\">a nasty little result<\/a>. It turns out that the best way to select for optimum performance from a multi-racial applicant pool is to discriminate <em>against<\/em> the low-performing groups. You need not follow the rather daunting math to follow the reasoning: the greater the difference between a score and the mean, the likelier it becomes that the score was lucky. If you adopt a single cutoff, the members of low-performing groups who are admitted have a greater differential between their scores and the mean (for their groups) than others. Therefore, their results are more likely due to chance. Therefore, you need to set a higher cutoff for the low-performing groups to compensate for this fact. And therefore people who clamor for a single cutoff for all applicants are <em>not<\/em> advocating a meritocracy, even though they think so.<\/p>\n<p>(Link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/\">Gene Expression<\/a>, who else?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here&#8217;s a nasty little result. It turns out that the best way to select for optimum performance from a multi-racial applicant pool is to discriminate against the low-performing groups. You need not follow the rather daunting math to follow the reasoning: the greater the difference between a score and the mean, the likelier it <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=343' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-4-id","category-22-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}