RE: Muslim students less likely to be awarded top class degrees.
March 18, 2020 at 10:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2020 at 11:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The percentage of muslim staff is probably related to the percentage of muslim students by pure demographics. If there's a significant population of muslims in an area choosing to study and work at a particular institution - the numbers would be expected to average out (outside of institutional bias). In areas with only a few muslim students, it's likely for there to be even fewer muslim professors...but lets imagine some critical mass where the percentages even out and then rise together.
3% can only absorb one shitty student at 33%, whereas 9% can absorb 3 at 33%. In this event..the relationship is coincidental.
One muslim trust fund baby, dumb as a rock, at a predominantly non-muslim institution will have a higher statistical weight and fewer muslim professors. Validating both points of data. Potentially, ofc. I'd be more worried about institutional bias given the surface relationship of those numbers, than muslim people being dumber than other people - or jewish people being smarter. One otherwise bright student expressing themselves in a culturally isolated way can stand in very well for the single (actually) shitty student, especially with fewer people to appreciate what they're trying to say. Whatever could increase the percentage of muslim professors would be a good hedge against unintentional but insensitive mistakes like that.
It's hard to believe that there aren't non-muslim professors who failed up and muslim professors who succeeded down (especially given attainment gaps). The low hanging fruit for a university with a larger attainment gap is obvious. Reach out and hire professors. Hilariously difficult to do - optics.
3% can only absorb one shitty student at 33%, whereas 9% can absorb 3 at 33%. In this event..the relationship is coincidental.
One muslim trust fund baby, dumb as a rock, at a predominantly non-muslim institution will have a higher statistical weight and fewer muslim professors. Validating both points of data. Potentially, ofc. I'd be more worried about institutional bias given the surface relationship of those numbers, than muslim people being dumber than other people - or jewish people being smarter. One otherwise bright student expressing themselves in a culturally isolated way can stand in very well for the single (actually) shitty student, especially with fewer people to appreciate what they're trying to say. Whatever could increase the percentage of muslim professors would be a good hedge against unintentional but insensitive mistakes like that.
It's hard to believe that there aren't non-muslim professors who failed up and muslim professors who succeeded down (especially given attainment gaps). The low hanging fruit for a university with a larger attainment gap is obvious. Reach out and hire professors. Hilariously difficult to do - optics.
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