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Originally Posted by peter12
What would that solve? Are you saying we need to treat all ethnic groups as having different subsets of disabilities?
Standardized testing works. The research is in, and it is overwhelming. If you are worried about some ethnic groups being behind the median, then look at changing social arrangements within those groups, or exposing those groups to more cohesive education.
Don't move the bar down a few rungs just so that they can see some false progress. That doesn't fix anything.
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It's not really my area of expertise so I don't want to comment on it in detail. Was just pointing out that there seems to be a lot of debate in the area. I'd also point out though that universities are starting to be more flexible with admission standards when accounting for disabilities and the like than they used, which is a good thing. I'm not really trying to draw an equivalence between race and disabilities because that's pretty crude and insulting. I'm just saying flexibility that affords more opportunities isn't exactly a novel idea and probably benefits society as a whole in the long run.