# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1007
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1007 "2023-09-18T11:01:03Z")
This is about a post from before the most recent mini-flounce. A similar point could have been made using actual numbers, but instead the citation was conveniently misread to overstate the phenomenon. Linking to my own post. > [@Supreme Court poised to strike down affirmative action in Harvard and UNC cases - let's talk about the ramifications (now struck down, June 29, 2023)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-poised-to-strike-down-affirmative-action-in-harvard-and-unc-cases-lets-talk-about-the-ramifications-now-struck-down-june-29-2023/981710/240): > > Those aren’t the scores for admitted students. And they average in earlier years when the gap was larger. Since the ample opportunity for self-correction was not taken, I’ll do it myself. The scores presented as “the average scores across the SAT exams” “to get into Harvard” are in fact the scores of applicants. You can tell by the “Among Applicants” and “Among Admits” labels in the legend for the plot these numbers were pulled from. When you mouse over them, there’s even a popup that says “… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881)._