Originally Posted by
Easy Street
None of the correspondence leaked thus far has indicated how the white males who did succeed were selected. If they received the same "equal merit" treatment as the minorities and females, then presumably they were allocated training places in the order they applied, or the order they attended OASC, or alphabetical order, or some other system like that. If, on the other hand, they were selected based on their merit scores - with the highest scores being offered places - then stand by for the law of unintended consequences to take hold, as white males perform better *on average* through training and in their early careers, with consequences for numbers succeeding at promotion boards... you saw it predicted here first.
You pre-suppose that all will be treated equally throughout the training system. Historically this has not actually happened. A number of years ago the RAF made a MAJOR change to the entry requirements for pilot. The first batch through that met this new requirement were treated very differently indeed!