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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by okaram on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:05AM (#19938688)
What do you mean by merit? Ability? Capacity? Effort? Worthiness? Ability at what? Are the SATs a good measure of that?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by maceurt on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:37AM (#19946226)
Probably the best/ most ubiquitous method we have right now.

It would be trivial to improve our tests of merit compared to the almost impossible task of testing how well a student would do free from environmental factors.

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