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Came across an NY times article, some proof that I am not the only who thinks something's off with the idea of diversity http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/class-based-vs-race-based-admissions.html I think that the idea of "promoting" diversity is a half-baked one at best and that's what I have been saying all along.

@kkk: personal attacks are a well known logical fallacy "Ad hominem" attacking my "supposed" appearance does not prove my arguments wrong, so chill. @rising_start: Imagine for a moment that I calculate the probability and then find the reciprocal of that. Which definition would make sense then?

@kkk: I would not be convinced that one should automatically respect another for struggling with disadvantages. respect commanded is respect deserved. I still stand by my point that any attempt to elicit a statement from me in defense of my diversity is inane, because diversity is illdefined. I have proposed two different measures of diversity, let me know if there is an obvious winner between those two.

@Latte: All i meant was that lying is wrong no matter what one lies about doesnt matter if you lie about being gay or being a woman or man, nothing's special. Clearly all my analogies are gonna touch a nerve, so I am gonna stop doing that. So ok here's the question that I was really trying to ask, what is the definition of diversity that one is supposed to address in their diversity statement? Is diversity measured as the inverse of the probability that a student would apply to Stanford given the student's gender, sexual-orientation, economic status, race, ethnicity, work experience, culture and special interests ? Or is diversity the inverse of probability that a set of properties coexist in a person, how diverse a person is (e.g. extremely hairy, chinese, black)? and what properties should one include while calculating that probability, race, religion or political beliefs, IQ as well?

I agree that lying to gain admission would be an assholistic(assholish?) thing to do but their is nothing special in lying about being a queer. Every day women are assualted or killed, become homeless and are discriminated against because of their gender yet we have many a movies about this same idea where the protagonist fakes their gender for their goal. I have nothing against any minority (I am part of one) but irrational sympathizing makes me puke.

After checking the thread today I realized that a lot of people found my example insensitive, I apologize to them. Anyway, I just wanted to get some anecdotal evidence of whether others also felt that the diversity section was inane and it seems that they do. So hopefully people wouldn't read too much into it. As DoubleShot mentioned I was just hypothesising, get it

So I was filling my stanford application today when I noticed a section on diversity. I started wondering if anyone would make up a story to get brownie points on the diversity test and I thought that the easiest way to fake would be to lie about one's sexual orientation. I mean who can check, and you can always say that you are bicurious later. Thoughts? did anyone do that successfully? I am just intrigued by this possibility and can think of a little john grisham'esque plot for a novel on these lines.