If you don't know what affirmative action is: In the USA, looking at the raw statistical admissions data into medical schools, Whites and Asians on average need to score around 92% on the MCAT for admission, while Blacks need to score around 64% for admissions.
Sources:
www.aei.org/publication/acceptance-rates-at-us-medical-schools-in-2015-reveal-ongoing-discrimination-against-asian-americans-and-whites/
medschoolodyssey.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/more-statistics-on-the-mcat-its-harder-than-you-think/
>For all matriculants to US medical schools in the fall of 2015, the average MCAT score for Asians (32.8) and whites (31.8) were above the average MCAT score of 31.4 for all matriculants, while the average MCAT score for Hispanics (28.0) and blacks (27.3) had average MCAT scores below the overall average (see second to last column in table)
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I think we need to do more to address racism and sexism in chess. Looking at the top 100 players, every single one is male, and almost every single one is of White European ancestry, with notable exceptions of Indians and East Asians.
I think in chess we to do something to combat racism and sexism so that it is more equal for all people until we have an equal number of all races and sexes in the top 100, just like it is in academia in America. For example, maybe White Males can start the game with no queen. If that's not enough then maybe they have to play the game wearing headphones blaring painful screeching sounds. What do you think?
Sources:
www.aei.org/publication/acceptance-rates-at-us-medical-schools-in-2015-reveal-ongoing-discrimination-against-asian-americans-and-whites/
medschoolodyssey.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/more-statistics-on-the-mcat-its-harder-than-you-think/
>For all matriculants to US medical schools in the fall of 2015, the average MCAT score for Asians (32.8) and whites (31.8) were above the average MCAT score of 31.4 for all matriculants, while the average MCAT score for Hispanics (28.0) and blacks (27.3) had average MCAT scores below the overall average (see second to last column in table)
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I think we need to do more to address racism and sexism in chess. Looking at the top 100 players, every single one is male, and almost every single one is of White European ancestry, with notable exceptions of Indians and East Asians.
I think in chess we to do something to combat racism and sexism so that it is more equal for all people until we have an equal number of all races and sexes in the top 100, just like it is in academia in America. For example, maybe White Males can start the game with no queen. If that's not enough then maybe they have to play the game wearing headphones blaring painful screeching sounds. What do you think?