Question

A small college has been accused of gender bias in its admissions to graduate programs. a. Out of 500 men who applied, 255 were accepted. Out of 700 women who applied, 240 were accepted. Find the acceptance rate for each gender. Does this suggest bias? b. The college then looked at each of the two departments with graduate programs, and found the data below. Compute the acceptance rate within each department by gender. Does this suggest bias? Department Men Women Applied Admitted Applied Admitted Dept A 400 240 100 90 Dept B 100 15 600 150 c. Looking at our results from Parts a and b, what can you conclude? Is there gender bias in this college’s admissions? If so, in which direction?

Answer 1

Given:

255 were accepted in 500 men and 240 were accepted in 700.

a)

For sample 1:

`\text{Acceptance rate for men=}(255)/(500)`
`\text{Acceptance rate for men=0}.51`

For sample 2:

`\text{Acceptance rate for women=}(240)/(700)`
`\text{Acceptance rate for women}=0.34`