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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by starchild_3001 on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:05PM (#27936157)
Not sure what data you're talking about. What I've seen so far: SAT <-> Income are correlated => let's not rely on SAT? That's such a BS argument.

Anything related to income will be (statistically speaking) associated with intelligence and other personal traits (perseverance etc). Any of this will be obviously correlated with your kid's SAT --- it's called genetics.

Any other, more sensible data to look at?

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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by dsr_ on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:10PM (#27936196)
It's never the kid's income, though. It's always the parents' income.
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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by tdeck on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:39PM (#27937695)
> Anything related to income will be (statistically speaking) associated with intelligence and other personal traits (perseverance etc). Any of this will be obviously correlated with your kid's SAT --- it's called genetics.

No, it's called social darwinism.

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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by starchild_3001 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:44PM (#27955391)
tdeck, genetics is a statistical phenomena. Your parents being smart/strong/fast runner/good in music etc doesn't turn you into one of these instantly, but they're statistically correlated with you having similar abilities and traits.

How can you argue against this? Isn't this obvious? Isn't this what genetics is all about --- parents' genes being passed to offspring?

You're either blinded by your ideology... or maybe don't understand biology.

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