Metamorphosis: from statistics into cockroaches, a response to Professor Cohen's a study of invidious racial discrimination in admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology: Monty Python and Frank Kafka meet a probit regression.

Albany Law Review › Vol. 67 Nbr. 1, September 2003

Author: Domenech, Daniel A.

Position:: Response to Lloyd Cohen, Albany Law Review, vol. 66, p. 447, 2003

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Response to Lloyd Cohen, Albany Law Review, vol. 66, p. 447, 2003

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Metamorphosis: from statistics into cockroaches, a response to Professor Cohen's a study of invidious racial discrimination in admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology: Monty Python and Frank Kafka meet a probit regression.

In a recent Albany Law Review symposium issue regarding diversity, (1) Dr. Lloyd Cohen argued that the process used by the Fairfax County Public Schools to select students for admission to the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ("TJ") results in invidious racial discrimination. (2) He claimed that the TJ admissions process, even if facially neutral, is calculated to admit substantially more African-American students than would be chosen on merit alone, in violation of both the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (3) Cohen ba...

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