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Current college admissions concern themselves with various standardized tests... and then a plethora of other data. Making a decision on many, or even too many
by Charuru 16y ago
Current college admissions concern themselves with various standardized tests... and then a plethora of other data. Making a decision on many, or even too many data points is always better than a decision made based on only 1 number. I don't see how that's debatable.
- nandemo 16y ago> Making a decision on many, or even too many data points is always better than a decision made based on only 1 number. No, it is not always better. There are many situations where more data leads people to make non-optimal decisions. This is well known.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoMost of the other data is used primarily to restrict access to certain "tribes", not to select good students. (By "tribe", I mean certain personality types and cultural groupings, not ethnic tribes. Though of course, the other data points are used to reward certain ethnic groups as well.)