Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

[James]

Ack . . I must not have been clear in my post. I said that after you have built a population profile it become self selecting.

Active selection is discrimination by the group. However, once a group reflects a certain profile it will attract like members and welcome them.

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

Uh, no.

What your example is missing is that the groups actively discriminate based on certain traits.

If we were talking about the PNMs self-selecting where they went, we might get your results over time for the reason of comfort in similarity, but not if there's active discrimination. And there is.

The fat girls end up in one group (if they do) not simply because people are drawn to similarity but because they are actively excluded other places.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by James

Ack . . I must not have been clear in my post. I said that after you have built a population profile it become self selecting.

Active selection is discrimination by the group. However, once a group reflects a certain profile it will attract like members and welcome them.

I don't think this is exactly it. It's not that authentic a process.

The groups all actually value the same traits in new members for the most part, but there are artificial pressures on the groups like quota and chapter total.