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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by pishpash on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:47PM (#19936078)
So is it okay then to have poorly educated people in college? This incentivizes everyone moving to a negatively rated district and getting a worse education, because it wouldn't matter, according to the logic.

That's assuming they calculated their adjustments precisely. And if they didn't, then welcome to all sorts of artificial biases in the system where a few more people appointed themselves to determine the fates of many. Congrats on solving nothing at all.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by eyeball on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:27AM (#19936279)
Asian dad should move the family to a shitty neighborhood and spend the saved money on private tutors. Get boosted scores from the “everyone equal” has hood adjustment on top of already good scores from all the tutoring.
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