The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Eric Hoover
October 30, 2018
David Card didn’t mince words. In testimony here in federal court on Tuesday, the economist from the University of California at Berkeley answered technical questions about his analysis of Harvard University’s admissions process and used words like “nonsensical” to describe another economist’s analysis.
A day after current and former students shared personal stories to explain why campus diversity mattered to them, the trial once again turned into a discussion of two data sets. Each offers a different answer to the same question: Is Harvard’s admissions process biased against Asian-American applicants?
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