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Coffeebeanz posted...

I know you think you're clever about how statistics work, but you really aren't.

Believe or not it doesn't take that much book smarts to know that percentages alone are never a good statistic. So if you think I think I'm clever because I and other people pointed out something that even high schoolers know, well thanks I guess. Here's something else I guess I think I'm clever at because I know how to do, going with this reasoning

https://imgur.com/KDbEfST

Coffeebeanz posted...

Yes, the acceptance rates of each race would be different because the number of applicants would be different. But the average accepted MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race

Which would also be affected by another factor that has been conveniently omitted for the sake of this topic such as where they apply, since a quick Google search has turned up acceptance rates ranging from 1% to 28% depending on the school (and that's just from Googling "medical schools with highest acceptance rates"). Since this topic isn't about one school in particular and instead about all medical schools, that average accepted MCAT and GPA would not be the same regardless of race if you have notable subset of a group applying to extremely competitive programs and another applying to ones with a higher ratio of available spots to applicants.

I'd feel better about fulfilling your request to jump to conclusions and make decisions about medical school acceptance (just because I pointed our your shitty use of statistics) if I had more info about this. Maybe it's on this site you got the chart from?
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