In the SSC subreddit, someone reposted that data showing the strong race bias in the admission process for medicine. I reposted it on Twitter with some snark, to the usual effect: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/878401531271421952 Of course, someone stepped forward to argue the 'tests are biased' view. While one could rule this out on implausibility grounds given the mountains of other evidence on the lack of test bias, a more direct approach is evidence for post-admission outcomes showing that outcomes for the groups receiving undue admission are worse than those for the others. While we'd really like hard data on actual work outcomes like patient satisfaction, malpractice lawsuits, patient death, objective measures of e.g. surgery skill, correct diagnosis, these are really hard to find. However, we can get data from end-of-training tests which are used to award people their professional licenses. So I dug digged around a bit and found a lot of stuff. It's often to be found in local reports, not journal articles, but we don't care.
Race and exam pass rates (data dump)
Race and exam pass rates (data dump)
Race and exam pass rates (data dump)
In the SSC subreddit, someone reposted that data showing the strong race bias in the admission process for medicine. I reposted it on Twitter with some snark, to the usual effect: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/878401531271421952 Of course, someone stepped forward to argue the 'tests are biased' view. While one could rule this out on implausibility grounds given the mountains of other evidence on the lack of test bias, a more direct approach is evidence for post-admission outcomes showing that outcomes for the groups receiving undue admission are worse than those for the others. While we'd really like hard data on actual work outcomes like patient satisfaction, malpractice lawsuits, patient death, objective measures of e.g. surgery skill, correct diagnosis, these are really hard to find. However, we can get data from end-of-training tests which are used to award people their professional licenses. So I dug digged around a bit and found a lot of stuff. It's often to be found in local reports, not journal articles, but we don't care.