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1. :niggy: (niggy@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 12:26:47 JST :niggy:
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   Hello friends, affirmative action has been in the news recently due to the supreme court ruling. It's always been difficult to get hard data on its effects though, as colleges generally conceal their practice of it and don't publish relevant statistics.
   
   I will share some signals intelligence from a Computer Niggy Operation (CNO) to hopefully improve that.
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   • :niggy: (niggy@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 12:28:23 JST :niggy:

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     Computer Niggy Exploitation (CNE) access was obtained to the University of Minnesota's data warehouse.
     Within this massive Oracle SQL database system they store basically all important records the university has kept since they begin digitizing in 1989.
     Student/faculty PII, grades, and most importantly here admissions data with diversity statistics
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   • :niggy: (niggy@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 12:28:23 JST :niggy:

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     After exfiltrating data, I set up a local database with the relevant tables imported from, and queried it to get various statistics on affirmative action at UMN.
     
     Joining the PS_DIVERSITY and PS_DWAD_APPL_HS tables I was able to query the average ACT scores of admitted applicants of each racial category, with admissions excluded pre-2010 to keep it contemporary. A graph of results is included here.
     
     The results are of course largely expected, showing for example a White/Asian applicant must have a significantly higher ACT to be admitted than a black applicant.
     
     Interestingly a White/Asian applicant only gets some benefit from not specifying their race, likely because only White/Asian applicants don't.
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   • nugger (nugger@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 12:30:27 JST nugger

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     @niggy THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
   • :niggy: (niggy@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 12:30:28 JST :niggy:

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     That's all the analysis I have for you now friends.
     There's a very large amount of very sensitive information in there (eg millions of SSNs) so I'd prefer not post the whole data.
     Let me know if you have any queries to request though.
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   • :niggy: (niggy@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 04:43:34 JST :niggy:

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     Hello friends, I have another graph for you
     
     I wanted to follow up with some grade data of students after admission.
     The admissions data I'm using was from PeopleSoft (the PS table prefixes), so I've relied on matching up the PS "EMPLID" columns to correlate data from different tables. Unfortunately most grade data (eg per-course) isn't PeopleSoft so it's not that easy there.
     However, one table was. PS_DWSA_DEGREES has 350,606 records of degrees awarded, including the relevant GPA.
     
     From this I've got data of average GPA of graduated students. This has a selection bias of only those that successfully graduated, but still useful.
     
     Also with a new race I forgot to include last time, Pacific islanders.
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     @niggy was thinking about how great this graphic was yesterday

   • :niggy: (niggy@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 17:56:35 JST :niggy:

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     think I've successfully just used this data to blackmail a libtard journalist, a month later and still getting value from it
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   • :niggy: (niggy@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 17:56:35 JST :niggy:

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     he was threatening to dox big twitter account (monitoringbias), he's been at UMN for a decade
     first he tried denying I had anything but stopped responding after I emailed his financial records from UMN payroll
     hopefully he won't be doxing anyone now
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