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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by deogeo on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:53PM (#19934271)
> A poor asian community that sends their kids to after school schools and does very well as a whole will suddenly fight themselves without the boost that others at that economic level might have.

They'll also be punished for having established a low-crime neighborhood and learning english, since crime level and english as second language are also factors in the adversity score.

Of course, no single one of them is entirely responsible for their parents and community teaching them english, or for the low amount of crime. Because those are results of collective instead of individual effort, they're not labeled as laudable accomplishments, but as shameful privileges.

Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Apocryphon on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:54PM (#19935815)
Who's to say that their lower-income status doesn't out-weigh the other factors you're describing?
Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by rmah on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:21PM (#19935946)
The student's family's income is not taken into account for the adversity score.
Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Apocryphon on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:26PM (#19935978)
Seems like an oversight in how the score is calculated, then.
Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by deogeo on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:55PM (#19941950)
As I understand, there is no 'out-weighing' - holding other factors constant, their adversity score would be even higher if their neighborhood had more crime, or spoke worse english.