Less academically qualified applicants should be treated as such, unless they come from poorer households and therefore do not have access to the same amount of resources as other applicants. However, affirmative action is fundamentally flawed because it uses race instead of targeting these groups themselves. Race-based affirmative action attempts to target these groups: the discriminated against, the poor, and those with unique experiences and intellectual merits. Counter to most stereotypes, ugliness is highly correlated with poor intellectual performance by traditional measures, though I don’t know how many qualified applicants will be willing to put that down on their application. At least they don’t have to stand in the back for pictures.įinally, what about intellect? Perhaps our universities are in dire need of diversity of intelligence. As if short people didn’t have it bad enough: being refused at roller coasters, being unable to stand in the shallow end of pools, and now, being denied affirmative action. One of the strongest correlations with lower incomes is held by those with lower centers of gravity. Perhaps affirmative action attempts to help those groups heavily correlated with lower incomes. However, women and Jews are indeed overlooked in the affirmative action policies of most schools. It would be hard to overlook women and Jews when considering historical punching bags.
Perhaps affirmative action is meant to help those who have historically been discriminated against. So clearly, not just any minority can qualify as a “minority.” Fisher, adorable gingers are not considered a minority (despite red hair occurring in only 1-2 percent of the world population).
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She maintains she was the victim of an admissions process that elevates skin color above academic qualifications and gives unfair advantage to minorities.īut who counts as a “minority” in affirmative action? Unfortunately for Ms. Future studies that draw from larger and more diverse, community-based samples are needed.The Supreme Court is in the midst of hearing a suit against the University of Texas at Austin by Abigail Fisher. Results indicate that White sexual minority women have higher levels of eating pathology than Black sexual minority women and both Black and White heterosexual women. Race moderated the association between sexual orientation and eating pathology compared to all other groups, White sexual minority women had the highest level of eating pathology. Body dissatisfaction mediated the relationship between BMI and eating pathology, and levels of associations were not attenuated by sexual minority status. Sexual minority women reported higher BMIs, higher levels of body dissatisfaction, and higher levels of eating pathology than heterosexual women. Participants completed the Body Image Measure and the Eating Attitudes Test-26. Participants reported on sexual orientation, and race, and body mass index (BMI) was derived from interviewer collected height and weight. Methodĭata were collected from the Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS). This study examines prevalence and correlates of restrictive and weight control-related eating pathology in sexual minority women. Eating pathology is more prevalent among women compared to men, but prevalence and correlates associated with eating pathology likely vary among subgroups of women.
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