UNC Scandal: A Reminder of the Wainstein Report

Is Weinstein really looking at it objectively considering the course of study and the general population numbers?

Percent of black male undergrad students vs male undergrad students at UNC is roughly 3-4% (depends on year)

Percent of black male student athletes vs male student athletes at UNC is 66%. link here

Percent of male scholarships devoted to basketball and football at UNC is (roughly) 53%. Percent of male undergrads are at 41%. Percent of student athletes make up roughly 4% of student population (males at 2%).

Take a class of say, 7,000. Eliminate 98% right off the top because they aren't male student athletes (140). Eliminate 47% of those because they aren't Football or Basketball players (74.2). Eliminate 33% of those because they aren't African American (57.1).

Take that 7,000 again and eliminate 41% of males (4130). Eliminate 96.5% that aren't black (144.55).

57.1/144.55 is equal to 39%.

In other words we could reasonably expect roughly 40% of these classes to be filled with football and basketball players based on sheer socio economic numbers.

Wainstein found 47.4% were student athletes. Of those student athletes 63% of them were football and basketball players. 63% of 47.4 is 29.8%. That is 10% less than socioeconomic percentages would expect.

TLDR: socioeconomic data suggests 40% is a reasonable number of football and basketball players that would take these classes. Wainstein found that 30% of football and basketball players took these classes. And Wainstein also found that the student athletes that did take the class made worse grades than non student athletes. I'm not seeing the data pointing to any preferential treatment.

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