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I'm finally set up to livetweet Day 13 of #HarvardTrial. Harvard's expert, the @UCBerkeley labor economist David Card, is on the stand, attempting to firm up his finding that there is no statistical evidence of discrimination against Asian-Americans.
Another economist, Susan @Dynarski, who has contributed to a brief in support of Harvard and looked closely at this case, has said that Card is the exact last expert she'd want to to go up against — see below:
Card is looking over a chart of some of @Fair_Admissions's models, in which Asian-Americans see measurably higher academic and extracurricular ratings in Harvard admissions officers, but lower personal ratings. He calls it a "strange kind of schizophrenia."
At last set up for Day 6 of the #HarvardTrial, where @RickKahlenberg of the left-leaning @TCFdotorg is on the stand. Kahlenberg has argued for @Fair_Admissions that Harvard could achieve real diversity without considering race in admissions: …2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl…
Kahlenberg says he considers it extremely important for a college like Harvard to promote diversity—of all kinds. He adds: "the socioeconomic diversity at Harvard is deeply lacking... Raj Chetty found that there have been 23 times as many rich kids on campus as poor kids."
You can look at some of what Raj Chetty (formerly a Harvard economist) found out about Harvard's economic effects in this well-designed #infoviz from @UpshotNYT: nytimes.com/interactive/pr…
