Re:Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
by burfog on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:21AM
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It's desirable to create a test with cultural bias. College has a culture. Remember, the test is about the ability to do well in college. Awareness of the cultural expectations will increase the chance of success in college.
If a student couldn't be bothered to learn about the culture, he isn't a good fit.
That said, the questions really are about reading. If you read lots of books, not counting the ones for little kids, you'll have no problem with the questions.
Re:Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
by yboris on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:35AM
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Do you think it's desirable to maintain a college culture that is biased towards the children of people that have yachts?
Re:Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
by burfog on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:48PM
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Those people practically don't exist, so who cares? They are a rounding error, if that.
It is desirable to maintain a college culture that is biased towards people who read about lots of different things, including yachts. Reading is good.
The choice of reading material matters. I don't count "The Cat In The Hat" and "Teen Magazine" the same as "The Grapes of Wrath", "Hamlet", "The Scarlet Letter", and "As I Lay Dying".
In my Ph.D. studies in Educational Psychology we were made aware of cultural bias. More than a hundred years ago, when people made tests to assess "intelligence" they may have not been so careful as we try to be now.
Are you sincerely willing to claim that it's impossible to create a test that doesn't make it easier for some subset of the population to outperform another?