MIGHT ACCEPTANCE OF THE MISMATCH THESIS COME SLOWLY?: Last week I wrote about the efforts to eradicate yellow fever and malaria during the Panama Canal construction. One thing that struck me as I was reading about the subject was how long it took many in the medical profession to accept the proof that mosquitos were the problem. It gives me hope that universities may yet take seriously the evidence that we would have more African Americans physicians, dentists, engineers, scientists, and college professors (and likely more African American lawyers) if race-neutral admissions policies were the norm.

I’ve written about this in Want to be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg up May Hurt Your Chances and in A “Dubious Expediency”: How Race-Preferential Admissions Policies on Campus Hurt Minority to Students. (Yes, I’ve posted these articles before. I figure I’ll keep posting them until I’m sure that everybody and his brother know about the evidence.)