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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by kevinalexbrown on Sunday October 05, 2014 @07:18PM (#8413746)
I'd be curious to know how much this might exacerbate socioeconomic gaps, given implicit prejudices. The SAT might have cultural biases, but imagine a test where the entire point is to see how well you line up with them!
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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by A_COMPUTER on Monday October 06, 2014 @04:04AM (#8414771)
>The SAT might have cultural biases

I believe this is overstated in current versions of the test. I have seen how cultural bias is mitigated on these and other tests, a battery of stats are run on the raw item scoring and if a question is found to disproportionally punish a particular group captured in the demographics section, the question is thrown out of scoring even if the reason isn't clear on review.

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