1. Find another article on the affirmative-action lawsuit that has polarized the Michigan campus and be prepared to discuss your views on this controversial issue.
2. The University of California at Berkeley was charged with having discriminated against women in the graduate admissions process for the fall quarter of 1973. The table below identifies the number of acceptances and denials for both male and female applicants in each of the six largest graduate programs at the institution at that time:
| Men Accepted | Men Denied | Women Accepted | Women Denied | |
| Program A | 511 | 314 | 89 | 19 |
| Program B | 352 | 208 | 17 | 8 |
| Program C | 120 | 205 | 202 | 391 |
| Program D | 137 | 270 | 132 | 243 |
| Program E | 53 | 138 | 95 | 298 |
| Program F | 22 | 351 | 24 | 317 |
| Total | 1195 | 1486 | 559 | 1276 |
(a) Start by ignoring the program distinction, collapsing the data into a two-way table of gender by admission status. To do this, find the total number of men accepted and denied and the total number of women accepted and denied.
| Admitted | Denied | Total | |
| Men | |||
| Women | |||
| Total |
(b) Consider for the moment just the men applicants. Of the men who applied
to one of these programs, what proportion were admitted? Now consider the
women applicants; what proportion of them were admitted? Do these proportions
seem to support the claim that men were given preferential treatment in
admissions decisions?
(c) To try to isolate the program or programs responsible for the mistreatment
of women applicants, calculate the proportion of men and the proportion
of women within each program who were admitted. Record your results in a
table like the one below.
| Proportion of Men Admitted | Proportion of Women Admitted | |
| Program A | ||
| Program B | ||
| Program C | ||
| Program D | ||
| Program E | ||
| Program F |
(d) Does it seem as if any program is responsible for the large discrepancy
between men and women in the overall proportions admitted?
Chapter 24
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