Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan
by PaulHoule on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:39AM
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Jim Webb who was a Marine officer in Vietnam, a journalist, a novelist, and then a Democratic senator from Virginia saw standardized tests as his route to social mobility from a poor background in the rural south.
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan
by MichaelCollins on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:21PM
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It's a damn shame Jim Webb stepped away from politics.
Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan
by lukas099 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:51PM
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I've long thought that our intuitions about IQ tests are backwards; they are the most fair and least biased method we have to sort applicants for things. The more 'holistic' the process, the more that subjectivity (and therefore bias) creeps in. The only way around it is affirmative action, which leads to the current state of affairs.
Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan
by PaulHoule on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:34PM
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I think some of the persistence of hating on standardized tests is that standardized tests are one of the few barriers against the worst rich kids inheriting status from their parents.
Sure, a little bit of test prep will help many people, if you’ve never seen a standardized test before some familiarity is good for you. But some of these kids could not test their way out of a paper bag and the only hope for them is hire a ringer to take the test in their place.
Yeah I mean we just had a whole college admissions scandal a few years back with rich parents trying to get their not-so-smart kids into elite colleges.