re: Strangers Rank Their Intelligence | IQ vs First Impressions

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I want affirmative action to go away. Without it, kids like your friend’s son would be admitted and the black/Hispanic kids wouldn’t be doubted.

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I could not agree more.

One of the smartest guys in my medical school class was black. He is brilliant. He is also now the youngest chair of a department in the history of his university hospital.

He hated the fact that people assumed he got in medical school because of his skin color.

I bet he still thinks people view his well deserved success through a colored lens.