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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by com2kid on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:23PM (#31672685)
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.

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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by chongli on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:26PM (#31674462)
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.
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