College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score

Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score by pravda on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:18PM (#20814022)

Well, because on average, Asians are more intelligent then whites, who are in turn more intelligent then blacks.

So, for example, when NYC has special schools for the smartest minority of students, these schools end up with mostly Asians and whites.[1] This is racist.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/nyregion/gifted-programs-...

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Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score by morpheuskafka on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:51PM (#20814299)

How is it racist? The school is for the most intelligent/academically proficient students or whatever its criteria is, and that's how the select them. If that subset of the population is, for argument, 99% white and Asian, it would be suspect if the school was anything but 99% those two. It doesn't matter that the population of the country as a whole is not.

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Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score by larrymcp on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:32PM (#20814140)

I think you mean "than", not "then". "than" is the word that fits in those phrases.

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Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score by pravda on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:39PM (#20814201)

You are correct! Then = time, than = comparison.

Maybe that is why I got downvoted. ;-)

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Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score by thisisbrians on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:59PM (#20814360)

* more intelligent based on available but extremely fallible metrics

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