The Atlantic Article RatingThe College-Admissions Merit Myth
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| "The affirmative action that colleges really needIn her new book, Is Affirmative Action Fair?" | Positive | 42% Conservative |
| "Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases that could end America's experiment with affirmative action in higher education." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Well, let's talk about affirmative action." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "So, all of this research shows these positive effects, and those data have been used in subsequent court cases defending affirmative action." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "And that's what a lot of opponents of affirmative action say now: It may have been justified in the past, but it's no longer necessary -- and if we need something, we might be able to find a proxy." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "From the September 2021 issue: This is the end of affirmative action" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Instead of arguing about how affirmative action goes against our ideas of meritocracy, we should look at what colleges are actually trying to do." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The Myth of Equity in College Admissions, Natasha Warikoo, a sociologist at Tufts University who has spent years examining race-conscious admissions, assesses the positions of those for and against affirmative action, and argues that we're asking the wrong questions about how students get into college." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "We can look at the data from the states that have baed affirmative action to understand that they have not figured out a stand-in." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "We see declines in every state, year on year, of the number of underrepresented minorities when affirmative action gets baed." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Any act by Russia to disrupt these critical grain exports is essentially a statement that people and families around the world should pay more for food or go hungry, Mr Blinken said." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "US president Joe Biden called Russia's decision purely outrageous and warned it would increase starvation, while his secretary of state Antony Blinken accused Moscow of weaponising food." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "US president Joe Biden called Russia's decision purely outrageous and warned it would increase starvation, while his secretary of state Antony Blinken accused Moscow of weaponising food." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
71% : The affirmative action that colleges really needIn her new book, Is Affirmative Action Fair?59% : Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases that could end America's experiment with affirmative action in higher education.
58% : Well, let's talk about affirmative action.
57% : So, all of this research shows these positive effects, and those data have been used in subsequent court cases defending affirmative action.
55% : And that's what a lot of opponents of affirmative action say now: It may have been justified in the past, but it's no longer necessary -- and if we need something, we might be able to find a proxy.
49% :From the September 2021 issue: This is the end of affirmative action
44% : Instead of arguing about how affirmative action goes against our ideas of meritocracy, we should look at what colleges are actually trying to do.
41% : The Myth of Equity in College Admissions, Natasha Warikoo, a sociologist at Tufts University who has spent years examining race-conscious admissions, assesses the positions of those for and against affirmative action, and argues that we're asking the wrong questions about how students get into college.
38% : We can look at the data from the states that have banned affirmative action to understand that they have not figured out a stand-in.
33% : We see declines in every state, year on year, of the number of underrepresented minorities when affirmative action gets banned.
*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.