Updates are available Correction dated 2019-02-14

Article History

Received: 18 September 2018

Accepted: 30 November 2018

First Online: 27 December 2018

Change Date: 14 February 2019

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: Following publication of the original article [1], the author attempted to provide an overview of a scandal occurring at a Japanese university over its practice of lowering the scores of (primarily) female applicants and offered possible suggestions as to how to prevent this from reoccurring.

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