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LD Woodruff, PhD, PT, is Professor, Graduate Program in Physical Therapy, North Georgia College, Dahlonega, GA 30597

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In 1989, I wrote an article for the special minority recruitment issue of the Journal of Physical Therapy Education. I began that article with a challenge to the reader to imagine a half glass of water and determine whether it were half full or half empty. The point of using this analogy was to raise the question of our perceptions as we view, observe, and judge minority students in physical therapy. My position at that time was that invariably minority students are judged to be half empty rather than half full. This current research by Haskins and colleagues reconfirms that there is still a big problem within our profession regarding the performance evaluations of nonwhite students. The intent of this research must be applauded....

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