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Re:SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social ... by astazangasta on Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:11PM (#19930817)
>objective

Did you mean quantitative? People have got to get over the idea that just because someone came up with a metric it somehow elides subjectivity and bias. A metric is a model; a model makes choices about representation.

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Re:SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social ... by synlatexc on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:17PM (#19931404)
Yes, I do. Fair point.
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