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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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