These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people from passing (2011)

Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by ctoth on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:09PM (#15424605)

I don't really understand this whole idea that this one test is the difference between a successful career and being an Uber driver for the rest of your life.

I didn't even take the SAT. I took the ACT, I have no idea how I did on it. I dropped out of college. And yet somehow I'm still making six figures at a technology company in Denver. And want to talk about coming from rough backgrounds? I'm totally blind. This, among other things, means that I never had math books I could use, often times having to have classmates read me the material so I could even try to do the homework. It means that my top reading speed in Braille is something like 90 words a minute, absurdly slow. But yet, somehow, that one test didn't ruin the rest of my life. survivership bias you might ask? Why certainly. But if I was able to make it through, maybe the tests in question don't act as quite the filter function you're indicating.

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Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by jacalata on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:21PM (#15424656)

That's not even survivorship bias, that's a single anecdote. By that logic, you can't even argue that being blind is a disadvantage because you are blind and you were successful.

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