army1987 comments on Stranger Than History - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 September 2007 06:57PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 30 March 2014 03:34:39AM *  -1 points [-]

These days most Ivy League schools are easy to graduate if one doesn't pick a hard major, so that really means "conditioned on 'was admitted into an Ivy League college' ". Except Ivy League colleges practice affirmative action, so it's still evidence in the original direction.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 March 2014 07:47:52AM 0 points [-]

These days most Ivy League schools are easy to graduate if one doesn't pick a hard major,

We know which majors Obama and Bush picked.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 30 March 2014 07:06:22PM 3 points [-]

Yes, and they weren't STEM fields, so no additional evidence there.