TIME Article RatingHow the End of Affirmative Action Could Affect the College Admissions Process
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- Policy Leaning
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- Politician Portrayal
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "I would hope that the schools predicted the outcome of today's decision and have already been preparing for this possibility, Victor Goode, a law professor at the City University of New York who's practiced in the area of affirmative action, says." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Affirmative action was never a requirement of any law, which is why it was so easy to strike down, Tillery says." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Affirmative action policies for higher learning institutions emerged in the 1960s as a popular method to combat racial inequality." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "The average gap between Black and white student graduation rates at the top dozen public universities without affirmative action was 10.1" | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "By contrast, the gap was 6" | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Some experts argue that other diversity initiatives don't work as well as affirmative action, however." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Supporters of affirmative action protest near the U.S. Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Many people wrongly believe affirmative action allows unqualified students to be admitted before qualified students, Biden told reporters on Thursday." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Socioeconomic inequality, systemic racism, and inequity in K-12 education have contributed to BIPOC exclusion and underrepresentation in colleges and universities, research shows, and affirmative action has contributed to the rise in minority students enrollment, experts say." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Experts fear that progress may be at-risk with affirmative action gutted." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The University of California system eliminated affirmative action in 1995." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "It's not part of Title VII, it was never viewed as any kind of anti-discrimination work." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "After the decision was released, President Joe Biden aounced that the Department of Education would soon begin offering guidance for colleges and universities on strategies to increase diversity and educational opportunities." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Biden added that admissions offices should consider if a student had to overcome adversity on their path to education." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Many people wrongly believe affirmative action allows unqualified students to be admitted before qualified students, Biden told reporters on Thursday." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "When asked if he thought the Supreme Court had gone rogue, Biden said, This is not a normal court." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
60% : "I would hope that the schools predicted the outcome of today's decision and have already been preparing for this possibility," Victor Goode, a law professor at the City University of New York who's practiced in the area of affirmative action, says.57% : "Affirmative action was never a requirement of any law, which is why it was so easy to strike down," Tillery says.
56% :Affirmative action policies for higher learning institutions emerged in the 1960s as a popular method to combat racial inequality.
56% : The average gap between Black and white student graduation rates at the top dozen public universities without affirmative action was 10.1% in 2020, the University of California Los Angeles found.
56% : By contrast, the gap was 6% at the top dozen public universities that used affirmative action.
53% :Some experts argue that other diversity initiatives don't work as well as affirmative action, however.
49% : Supporters of affirmative action protest near the U.S. Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
48% : "Many people wrongly believe affirmative action allows unqualified students to be admitted before qualified students," Biden told reporters on Thursday.
46% : Socioeconomic inequality, systemic racism, and inequity in K-12 education have contributed to BIPOC exclusion and underrepresentation in colleges and universities, research shows, and affirmative action has contributed to the rise in minority students enrollment, experts say.
43% : Experts fear that progress may be at-risk with affirmative action gutted.
41% : The University of California system eliminated affirmative action in 1995.
39% : "It's not part of Title VII, it was never viewed as any kind of anti-discrimination work.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.