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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by salty_biscuits on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:27PM (#22642328)
If you had a multiple choice quiz with the actual questions hidden you would get a normal distribution in results. Anything where you sum lots of small random effects.
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by im3w1l on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:40PM (#22642439)
If the test was not measuring anything at all, then you would expect repeat takers to have completely unrelated scores on first and last test.
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by salty_biscuits on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:23PM (#22644120)
That's true, I'm just pointing out that the normality of the distribution of the results alone proves nothing.
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