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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by crazy1van on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:19PM (#19933995)
They are imperfect phrases, but generally an equality of opportunity in this case refers to no matter what you look like, what your parents do, how much money you have, if you get a SAT score and GPA above a threshold, you get accepted into the school.

Whereas equality of outcome would focus more on who gets in even if it means treating people differently based on what they look look, how much money they have, where they live, etc.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by rexpop on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:26PM (#19934062)
SAT scores and GPA are strongly affected by how much money you have.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Erik816 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:33PM (#19934109)
Yes, because intelligent parents tend to make more money. And their children tend to be more intelligent as well.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by learc83 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:46PM (#19934224)
That's part of it. But even when adjusting for IQ, parental income is highly correlated with success--SAT scores, college admission, lifetime income--however you want to measure it.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by rexpop on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:42AM (#19946244)
Are you sure you're not confusing causation?

I can, just off the top of my head, think of several situational variables impacted by wealth, which impact cognitive capacity:

- sleep - diet - training - study time

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:47PM (#19934228)
Similarly, the wind is strongly affected by weathervanes.
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