Question

The Board of Trustees at a university commissioned a top management-consulting firm to address the admission processes for academic and athletic programs. The consulting firm wrote a report discussing the trade-off between maintaining academic and athletic excellence. One of their key findings was:

The standard for an athlete’s admission, as reflected in SAT scores alone, is lower than the standard for non-athletes by as much as 20 percent, with the weight of this difference being carried by the so-called “revenue sports” of football and basketball. Athletes are also admitted through a different process than the one used to admit non-athlete students.

Based on what you have learned about measurement scales, does it make sense to compare SAT scores using percentages? Why or why not?

Answer 1

It doesn't make sense to compare scores of athletes and non athletes. because non athletes scores higher than athletes because they invest their time in study rather than practicing on ground or vice versa. We can see statistically also , The standard for an athlete’s admission, as reflected in SAT scores alone, is lower than the standard for non-athletes by as much as 20 percent, difference in 20% it is a huge difference we can even make clusters just by SAT scores that which one is athlete or which one is not. so there is no randomness.