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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by jedberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:51PM (#29600271)
Here is the main study from 2003: https://meridian.allenpress.com/her/article-abstract/73/1/1/...

That 2003 study was done at Harvard.

Here is a writeup of someone who replicated it with more recent test scores: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/new-evidence-...

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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by hcurtiss on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:06PM (#29600370)
"The SAT has been shown to be both culturally and statistically biased against . . . Asian Americans."

Well, I'll be damned. Huh.

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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by civilized on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:44PM (#29600676)
From the second article:

> The 2003 study and this year's found no DIF issues in the mathematics section.

The earlier claim about math word problems being culturally biased seems unsupported by the citations.

But will the claim be withdrawn? Hmm, let's find out...

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