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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: nkill
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.92Nov16111544@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:15:44 GMT
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- In-reply-to: stef@Apple.COM's message of 16 Nov 92 13:36:44 GMT
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- In article <74339@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
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- martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
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- >In article <74245@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
-
- > If my argument is correct, that means the two candidates are equally
- > qualified.
-
- >it is the precise numerical score that matters in most civil
- >service and like exams (like promotion exams in Fire Departments and
- >Police Departments.) There is *no* freedom to take someone with an 89
- >before someone with a 90.
-
- I realize this, but my point is that the small boost given to the minority
- candidate does not cause a *less qualified* candidate to be hired. It
- merely makes it a tad more likely that, given two equivalently qualified
- candidates, the one who is a member of a minority group will be hired.
-
- Okay, I see what you're saying ...but one can't be surprized then that
- after being in a system that *claims* that the precise numerical score
- is the sole criterion, people who find themselves at a numerical
- disadvantage because of some other criterion resent the hell out of it.
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