Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14fire.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1264791670-GxVD+sfKjvw04Ji/zop/fQ

>         It fails to explain how exactly the test discriminated. I looked at
> some other articles, and none gives any detail whatsoever.

  It's puzzling indeed. I'm trying to think how you could create an exam
which would be disadvantageous to black people, and I can't think of anything.
How could one possibly make a test disadvantageous to people with a certain
skin tone? I just can't fathom it.

  (I'm assuming that all applicants are given the exact same test, as the
article doesn't seem to imply anything else. Thus I cannot even imagine
how the suitability of the exact same test could depend on skin tone.)

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