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solipsist comments on Open thread, December 7-13, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: solipsist 08 January 2016 06:49:20PM 0 points [-]

HLS students of any skin color have high IQs as measured by standardized tests. The school's 25th percentile LSAT score is 170, which is 97.5th percentile for the subset of college graduates who take the LSAT. 44% of HLS students are people of color.

Comment author: Lumifer 08 January 2016 08:31:22PM 1 point [-]

44% of HLS students are people of color.

When I see funny terms like "people of color" (or, say, "gun deaths"), I get suspicious. A little bit of digging, and...

Black students constitute 10-12% of HLS students. Most of the "people of color" are Asians.