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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by jimbokun on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:16PM (#33836276)
> The problem is that standardized tests are more a measurement of access to resources and parental support than raw knowledge or future success.

But they do have predictive power for how well you'll do in college, independent of high school GPA and class rank.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-arent-actually-mad-...

Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by adolph on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:51PM (#33838073)
The latter statement leads with "But" indicating contradiction but does not contradict the previous statement. A contributing factor for college well-doing may also be determined by "access to resources and parental support." "Predictive power" sounds cool but may just be a statistical artifact, a tautological measure.