The Admissions Office at a Public University Could Likely Establish

question 33

True/False

The admissions office at a public university could likely establish a permissible affirmative action policy that awards minority students by bumping up their SAT score by 100 points.

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Definitions:

Karl Pearson

A British mathematician and biometrician known for founding the discipline of mathematical statistics.

Product-moment

Refers to a correlation coefficient developed by Karl Pearson that measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.

Negative Correlation

A linkage between two variables that shows one increasing while the other decreases.

Coefficient of Alienation

A statistical measure that represents the amount of variation in one variable that is not accounted for by its relationship with another variable.