Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu...
by com2kid on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:23PM
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You can look at the history of IQ tests to see that older ones were indeed biased. New tests are designed to counteract those biases.
The point is that it is possible for corrupt administrators to bias test results, and the methods to do such are fairly easy to come across.
I'm not objecting to IQ tests, just pointing out that if a school wanted to create a test that only admitted certain students, that it is very possible to do such.
Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu...
by chongli on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:26PM
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I know that old IQ tests (and other tests) were biased and used in racist ways. What I asked is whether there is any evidence of school administrators using those old biased tests in recent times. Otherwise this is just speculation.
Do you have any evidence of school administrators choosing "older" tests with biased questions about tennis scores or whatever other cultural trivia rich white kids are most likely to know about? I took an IQ test when I was a kid (early 90's) and it was a bunch of abstract questions involving mental rotations of objects, determining the next number in a sequence, determining the missing object from a set of objects, and so on. There were no questions about vocabulary or trivia of any kind.