This is because admissions criteria are messy and composite , and take into account race with, not before or after, a multiplicity of factors including region, educational access, economic standing, resources of all types, and parental support.

FORBES: No.

Mr Ball next treats us to a brisk description of the human eye (remember rods and cones from school biology?), an explanation of why Newton was right and Goethe wrong about the composite character of white light, and an account of the 19th-century regimentation of the continuous colour spectrum by means of colour wheels and other classifying devices.

ECONOMIST: Science and history of colour