Because Steven Avery has an IQ of 70.

If someone planted the key, there is still a ton of physical evidence Steven killed her.

He had confessed to the police. His lawyer tried to get the confession excluded, and the judge ruled that the confession was admissible.

Brendan Dassey was in mostly mainstream classes. He is in the lower quartile of the IQ distribution, but he is not mentally disabled. Most criminals are of below average intelligence.

There is a ton of evidence that he did it. I don’t know why people who watched the documentary think he’s innocent, other than that the defense lawyer seems very nice and the prosecutor is kind of a creep.

They found a flattened bullet with her DNA on it in his garage, her car key in his bedroom, her car abandoned on his property and her bones in a fire pit behind his house. Also, he was the last one to see her alive. Also, one time he doused a cat in gasoline and set it on fire. Also, once he ran a woman’s car off the…

For god’s sake. The bullet that went through her head was in his garage, her bones were in the fire pit behind his house, her car was abandoned on his property, his hand was injured and his blood was in her car.

The concern is that since they’re considered safe, that police will use them in a situation where they might not otherwise have used force at all.

Women will go to a movie just because Channing Tatum is in it, but men will not go to a movie just because of Jennifer Lawrence. But even male actors have much less box office draw than they used to, especially since the international box is so important these days.

I don’t see how an equal pay law affects actors, and especially not film actors, because actors and their representatives each independently negotiate their compensation terms when they contract on to a project. They are not really employees.

He actually said she pulled him on top of her and put his hand between her legs. She went home with him from a nightclub and was apparently sleeping nude on his couch, and the jury didn’t believe her.

Nobody ever said that. Legacy boosts have roots in nepotism and in quotas that used to be used to preserve white enrollment against a horde of high-scoring Jews and Asians.

The AI/PAI includes the holistic measure, which converts race into a number of points and factors it into a matrix that also considers test scores and grades. So a minority student with a higher AI/PAI score than Fisher could easily have had lower SATs and grades.

Possibly a phenomenon at lower-tier schools like Colorado State. Nontraditional students are overwhelmingly female. This is a thing at selective private schools or public flagships like Texas.

What gender parity policy? I am aware of no college that gives men concessions on academic admissions requirements.

If admissions officials were biased against black people, they wouldn’t have instituted the affirmative action programs in the first place. But if bias among admissions officials were the concern, it would certainly be possible to develop a system that hides the race of the applicants, as well as other race-suggesting…

Mitigating the historical effects of institutional racism is not a legitimate purpose for affirmative action under existing legal precedent.

Here’s the thing: People will use your alma mater as a yardstick for estimating how smart you are. You tell them where you went, and they know roughly what you need on the SAT to get in there.

Carson and Clarence Thomas oppose affirmative action because they believe they would have been admitted without it, and they’re probably right; they know their test scores.

Abigail Fisher wouldn’t have gotten into Texas under a race-neutral admissions policy. However, a black student with a profile similar to Fisher’s likely would be admitted under its affirmative action policy.