Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac...
by nyrikki on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:35PM
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The priority is a large educated workforce while not tossing away potential talent because they were born to the wrong parents.
But note that teams built from cognitively diverse members are far more productive while homogeneous teams dramatically underperform.
https://hbr.org/2017/03/teams-solve-problems-faster-when-the...
If I flip your numbers around, it actually sounds pretty good: a full quarter of the alumni come from the bottom 80% of zip codes!