Sean Casten@SeanCasten@mastodon.social
And by the way, that applies just as much to hiring managers in the corporate world. (As an old HR consultant once told me, "businesses tend to hire for hard skills and fire for soft skills".) The easy metrics to capture are rarely the ones most likely to predict your long term fit and success.
Sean Casten@SeanCasten@mastodon.social
Bottom line: it is in your self interest to maintain a diverse workforce / student body. It makes no more sense to say that a school can't prioritize a mix jocks/nerds/language majors/goth kids/etc over test scores alone than it does to consider race and gender. Unless you're a racist ass. /fin
