Re:Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high payi...
by PaulHoule on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:26AM
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I would say it is the other way around.
Stephen Jay Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" appears to be defensive of minorities for protective colorization. The real problem Harvard has is that it is flooded with legacy admissions who couldn't test their way out of a paper bag -- people like Gould get funding because their work supports the interest of those people. By saying it is about minorities they get support from the general public.
Standardized testing is a path to opportunity for poor people and other outsiders to demonstrate their talent. It's true that some rich people can improve their results by spending money, but also true that some of them are as dumb as a post and the only way they are going to beat standardized tests is bring in a ringer to take the test for them.
In every other aspect of education rich people are much more able to "achievement launder" and use their parents money and connections to appear to punch above their weight. Standardized tests can keep the bottom 40% of those people out.
Stephen Jay Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" appears to be defensive of minorities for protective colorization. The real problem Harvard has is that it is flooded with legacy admissions who couldn't test their way out of a paper bag -- people like Gould get funding because their work supports the interest of those people. By saying it is about minorities they get support from the general public.
Standardized testing is a path to opportunity for poor people and other outsiders to demonstrate their talent. It's true that some rich people can improve their results by spending money, but also true that some of them are as dumb as a post and the only way they are going to beat standardized tests is bring in a ringer to take the test for them.
In every other aspect of education rich people are much more able to "achievement launder" and use their parents money and connections to appear to punch above their weight. Standardized tests can keep the bottom 40% of those people out.