Intellectual Genocide's MIFI Group 1 admitted count (36) conflicts with Shen's 1994 table (26); the primary document's own internal arithmetic favors its own 36

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The other institution-level table in "Intellectual Genocide" does not match A. Shen's 1994 reproduction as cleanly as the MFTI row does (see claim-intellectual-genocide-mfti-figures-match-shen-1994-exactly). Shen's table gives MIFI: Group 1 (non-Jewish) 54 total, 26 admitted; Group 2 (Jewish) 29 total, 3 admitted. The primary text states instead: "of the 83 graduates... applying to the MIFI, 54 were non-Jewish (Group 1) and 29 Jewish (Group 2). Of the former 54, there were 36 admitted and of the latter 29 only 3 were admitted." The Group 2 (Jewish) figures agree exactly on both counts; only the Group 1 admitted count differs — 26 vs. 36.

The primary document supplies an internal check that was not available from Shen's table alone: it states combined Group 1 admissions across both MIFI and MFTI as "75 admissions" from "107 applicants." Since the MFTI Group 1 admitted count is independently confirmed at 39 by both sources, the implied MIFI figure is 75 − 39 = 36 — matching the primary text's own stated 36, not Shen's 26. This is the same document checking itself, not a third independent source, so it cannot rule out a shared upstream error; but it does make a transcription or typesetting slip in Shen's 1994 table the more likely explanation than an error introduced by Shifman's 2005 translation.

One caveat belongs beside that tiebreaker. Kanevsky and Senderov attach their own health warning to these two tables: gathering data across the two institutes' ten-plus departments posed "natural technical difficulties," "our table may contain some errors," and wherever their information was incomplete they "gave the benefit of the doubt to the Admission Committee" — assigning every failed applicant they could not resolve to Group 1. That bias runs toward understating the disparity, not inflating it, which is the direction that matters when weighing whether to trust the document's own 36.

source: "Intellectual Genocide," pp. 151–152. Same PDF/sha as above. source_quote (Shen, cross-check): table row "MIFI / First group 54 / Second group 29 / Admitted 26 / Admitted 3." https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/springer-published/1994-4-entrance-exams.pdf (sha256 8062e48587fef843a8904504671fd96a8838ed03b618bb4434e4c80d98ed3e0a).