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Kasz216 on 09 July 2010
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Farmageddon said:
Kasz216 said:
Farmageddon said:

I don't think that would make much sense. I mean, if 71% of people are Christians, and assuming they are randomly spread and the desire to get into each school is randomly spread, 71% of applications would be from Christians and 29% from outside. Your reasoning means it would be MUCH easier for a non-christian to get in there. Which makes little sense, seeing as they have a right to reserve for christians. Besides, if 49% of people there were non-christians, I think the guy who studies there would know and wouldn't imply it works differently from the way you're supposing it does, don't you think?

Also, on Universities with "quotas", saying x% is reserved for y group means what I said earlier, so I think it's just natural for them to use the same terminology

Except... your ignoring the fact that there very well may be quotas for other religions too.

Also, that you have no actual proof of said quotas.

I'm not sure I get what you mean by the bolded part, but I never said I had actual proof for anything anyway. And you don't have either :P

I was just talking about quotas to illustrate how it works in other circunstances.

And even if they actually had a "non-christian quota", 49% would be just ridiculous on a 29% non-christian place. Moreover, when you have quotas, you have a reserved percentage only a given group can apply to, but said group also runs for the "universal" part of the applications, so they can actually go over their "49%" but never (unless there's simply not enough of them, which is hard when there's any considerable competition) less than those "49%".

But a non-christian quota makes little sense unless non-christians there actually have much lower living standards for some reason.

Anwyay, I really think he'd know if half his classmates were not christians.

It makes as much sense as having a Christian quota... also, chances are they DO have a much lower standard of living.  At least that's how it seems to work in other Europeon countries.  France for example.

The point is, a 51% quota is largely meaningless, since statistically at least 51% of the school body would be majority Christian anyway...

You don't "pick which spots" you run for or anything... so if the school is atleast 52% Christian, then you know the Quota was meaningless.    The only way such a quota would be enforced would be if infact 49% of the school was non christian.

Which like you said... he'd know.  So such a quota is meanginless.   It'd be like if the US had a quota that 10% of all college students must be white.

10% of all college students are going to be white anyway.  It's dumb, but it's also meaningless.