[ExI] sat killers

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:43 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:57 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Much to my surprise, the University of California system went ahead and
>> disallowed the use of the SAT and ACT as criteria for admissions.  They
>> haven’t really said what if anything will be used to decide who is admitted
>> to the UC system now.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?  The number of clubs one belongs to?
>>
>
> Whether or not this was the intention, the criteria that will be used -
> because they are the only criteria that remain - are the very subjective
> criteria that standardized testing was meant to eliminate.
>
> Unstated (or, rarely, stated) racial and gender biases.  Backchannel
> favors and bribes.  And other things that don't actually correlate to
> academic ability.
>

### Well, yes, that's the point of removing SAT from admissions. Objective
testing reduces the administration's power to indulge their ideological
biases and to get bribes. Now they can keep Asians away so much easier.

Rafal
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