Not guilty of racism, again

Friday, May 29, 2026

View in browser
Earlier this month Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, posted this: "At Yale Medical School, a black applicant is 29 times more likely to be invited to interview than an Asian with equally strong academics."

A black critic on Twitter responded:

Yale School of Medicine has a total of 553 students across all four classes.

Total Black students: 44. That’s ~10 per class. [He means 11 -- TW.] Total Asian students: 157. That’s ~40 per class.

There are nearly as many Asian students PER CLASS as there are Black students in the entire school.

Black: 14% of America. Only 7% of Yale Med Asian: 7% of America. 28% of Yale Med. Who exactly is getting discriminated against here?

But nothing the critic says is incompatible with what Dhillon said. Notice that the critic says nothing about the test scores and academic preparedness of the two groups. They never do.

Only about 600 black students in the entire country have MCAT scores of at least 510, the bare minimum for an elite school. Meanwhile, there are 200 medical schools competing for that small number. The typical medical school admits 150 people per year. Yale admits only two-thirds of that number (104 students per year) and still has 11 black students entering each year, which is therefore a disproportionately high number of black students.

It boils down to this: the pool of Asian applicants with top-tier MCAT/GPA (say, 520+ and 3.95+) is much larger than the equivalent black pool. To achieve eleven black students per class (and maintain their "diversity" goals), Yale must extend far more interview offers to lower-scoring black applicants than to equally (or higher) scoring Asians. This yields the 29x odds ratio at the interview stage while still yielding more total Asian students enrolled (due to the much deeper Asian applicant pool at high scores and higher overall Asian application volume and qualification rates).

What this means, in short, is that Yale actually admits more black students than the raw numbers should lead us to expect.

But people see numbers like the ones from the critic -- black people are 14 percent of America but only 7 percent of Yale Medical School! -- and think: something underhanded must be going on.

In fact, as we saw in this example, outcome disparities like these generally have benign explanations, but the activist class doesn't want to hear them. Their identities revolve around grievance, and around the existence of secret conspiracies to keep their groups down. All disparities everywhere are ipso facto evidence of "discrimination," which is why the whole racket is such a lawyers' paradise.

Naturally we want to raise kids who are capable of spotting the fallacies in claims like these and who don't get swept up in campaigns for "change" that have zero basis in reality. That would be embarrassing for everyone.

The Tuttle Twins series of books for children and teens come in very handy here -- like their guide to logical fallacies, or their book about the world's worst ideas.

May as well pick them up with the extended Memorial Day sale -- 68% off the Family Starter Pack, for example -- still running.

But if you've been thinking this week, "I really need to grab that before it expires," you're getting dangerously close. A 68% discount ain't anything to shake a stick at, so check it out:
 
Tom Woods
 






This email was sent to dianaaudrey@gmail.com
why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences
Tom Woods · PO Box 701447 · Saint Cloud, FL 34770 · USA

posted by Diana Audrey at 10:04 AM 0 comments

Why guests LOVE Mariner of the Seas

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Take big thrills and bold chill across the Western Caribbean
Browser View
 PLAN A CRUISE    ROYAL CARIBBEAN LOGO    CRUISE DEALS 
MEET THE FLEET MARINES OF THE SEAS
MEET THE FLEET MARINES OF THE SEAS
ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES
ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES
THRILLS
THRILLS
BITE
BITE
BITE
BITE
ENTERTAINMENT
ENTERTAINMENT
OVERALL REVIEW
OVERALL REVIEW
ITIN
ITIN
SHOP_NOW_FOOTER_CTA
TERMS & CONDITIONS

All ship features, experiences and itineraries are subject to change without notice.
*Price is per person, in USD, cruise only, applies to select sailings, interior stateroom, based on double-occupancy, and reflects any promotional savings.
BOGO60 applies to new, individual, and named group bookings at prevailing rates made 5/5/26 –6/1/26 on sailings departing on or after 5/6/26 and provides 60% off the cruise fare of the second guest booked in the same stateroom as the first, full fare paying guest. Savings applied to cruise fare at checkout. Kids Sail Free applies to new, individual, and named group bookings at prevailing rates made 5/5/26 –6/1/26 on select sailings 3 nights and longer departing on or after 5/6/26 and provides $0 cruise fare for additional guests 12 years old and younger as of departure date, booked in the same stateroom as the first full fare paying and second guests. Taxes, fees, and port expenses are additional and apply to all guests.   Additional restrictions apply, for a full list of excluded sailings please visit http://www.RoyalCaribbean.com. Free 3rd & 4th Guests applies to new, individual, and named group bookings at prevailing rates made 5/5/26 – 6/1/26, on select sailings departing between 5/6/26 – 8/20/27 and provides $0 cruise fare on third and fourth guests. Taxes, fees and port expenses are additional and apply to all guests . Shorts & California Kicker  applies to new, individual, and named group bookings at prevailing rates made 5/26/26 –6/11/26, on short sailings departing on or after 5/28/26 -12/31/26 and on California sailings departing on or after 5/29/2026 - 12/29/2026  provides up to $50 in instant savings, varying by stateroom category booked and sailing length . Beat the Clock applies to new, individual, and named group bookings at prevailing rates made on 5/29/26 – 6/1/26 sailings departing on or after 5/30/26 and provides an up to $900 instant savings per stateroom varying by stateroom category booked and sailing length. Instant savings amount shown in USD will be converted to currency used for cruise purchases applied as instant rebate to the cruise fare at checkout reflected as “Dollars Off” or “Savings”. Offer open to residents of US, Canada, Puerto Rico and select countries in the Caribbean. Changes to the booking may result in the removal of the offer. Prices and offers are subject to availability and change without notice, capacity controlled, and may be withdrawn at any time. Refer to http://www.RoyalCaribbean.com for complete terms and conditions. Royal Caribbean International reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update fares, fees, and surcharges at any time without prior notice.

The Perfect Storm, Battle for Planet Z, and Playmakers Sports Bar & Arcade are trademarks of Royal Caribbean.

posted by Diana Audrey at 12:55 PM 0 comments