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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by svd4anything on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:04AM (#19936476)
Wow punishing those in privilege creates equality. The logic “progressive” american politics is pursuing is truly scary and broken.

Hating the rich is hate.

If you really loved the poor you would think how to help them lift themselves up. Holding down the top both doesn’t work and is deeply unethical.

College board should provide free tutoring and review classes based of their adversity score instead.

I can’t image this scheme won’t be challenged in courts. Especially the keeping secret the score, imagine if your credit score was kept secret and this will effect their lives more than credit score.

As I have said in other comments, next we need an Unattractiveness Score as we know physical traits have high correlation and causation to success and wealth, clearly a privilege and creating inequality.

Tax credits for the ugly. Mandatory minor face disfigurement for the overly beautiful or handsome.

Very scary developments. America is under true threat to its future with this politics.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by dang on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:33AM (#19937209)
Would you please not do flamewars on HN? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by svd4anything on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:14PM (#19944479)
I can kinda see why you say that, my best guess is if I delete references to politics and progressive, american etc, then you might see it as less an issue.

The comment I was replying to was pretty absurd wording of punishments.

Anyway it’s always a little hard to know exactly how to interpret the guidelines as there is quite a bit of subjectivity.

I do apologize.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by jachee on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:36AM (#19936614)
>If you really loved the poor you would think how to help them lift themselves up

I know! Let's give them a bit of advantage in getting an education.

Oh, wait.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by snaggletooth on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:59AM (#19936690)
Does anyone honestly believe the only way to provide that advantage is to fake their score? That kind of lazy thinking is what needs an adversity score to be considered good.
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