What is Merit?

[bovertine]

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I can not pick one ethnic group over another just because at a given point in time one particular group is over represented. I can not pick one gender over another simply because the property happens to have 75% females. Imagine the end result if it was shown that I collected applications, sorted them by gender, evaluated my current distribution and then asked a manager to only take from the male stack because we needed to gender balance the complex.

Oh, okay. That’s basically the AA debate, which I don’t want to get into. I thought we were talking about criteria other than those usual suspects.</p>