Very scientific.
And the conclusion:
"Their 100- and 177-point SAT score lead over Hispanic and Black students seems to have hurt, not helped, their chances of admission.
On the other hand, the smaller 73-point lead of Asian students over Whites helped greatly."
They're using scores from across the 100% of college applicants when less than 1% of them apply to Ivy League schools.
If they had used more natural language I'd be charitable and say they didn't know better, but not after they went out of their way to invent numbers to... separate out Jewish people from whites? While also insisting they're a small group so it doesn't matter?
I'm going to guess the admissions numbers didn't show the kind of dramatic gap they wanted so off to town they went.
Doesn't matter for calculating the non-Jewish White SAT is how I interpreted that. Since white_SAT = (2.4*jewish_SAT + 55.4*non_jewish_white_SAT) / (2.4 + 55.4), it means that even if your Jewish SAT estimate is off by ~100 points, it will only change the non-Jewish White SAT estimate by ~4 points.
Is there something non-scientific about estimates? Or do you think this is not a reasonable estimate, i.e. it may be significantly off? The charge of "non-scientific" is very vague - can you be more specific? What do you think is wrong, and by how much?
But, realizing you're OP...
> They're using scores from across the 100% of college applicants when less than 1% of them apply to Ivy League schools.
Respectfully, you need to go back to high school stats if you're trying to salvage this. Or maybe a bit earlier, since I'm pretty sure my 8 year old niece could see what's wrong there.
