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Interesting plots. What would actually happen though is that anxious elites would attempt to game the adversity system, doing things like maintaining an address
by remarkEon 7y ago
Interesting plots. What would actually happen though is that anxious elites would attempt to game the adversity system, doing things like maintaining an address in a “distressed” neighborhood for how ever long it takes to matter. The moral-ethical considerations aside (we’re actually going to punish or reward the children for the decisions the parents make?), this is just going to be abused. I’m skeptical it would even work as intended. Putting students into schools that they’re not academically prepared to be at because they had a rough time growing up sounds like setting them up for continued failure.
I also didn’t know UC was considering dropping the SAT all together. You know who will be the loudest cheerleaders for that? The same anxious elites that would move to a crappy neighborhood to boost their kid’s SAT score. Dropping the closest proxy we have for future academic performance (and a darn good one at that) would make everyone run for the side-door entrances to these institutions - and the back door will get a lot more lucrative. What a shame.
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago" Dropping the closest proxy we have for future academic performance (and a darn good one at that)" I'm actually super not educated in this- do you have proof that good SAT score is a strong predictor of good academic performance, and vice versa? (The vice versa is the most important part to me.)
- alistairSH 7y agoThere's a loose correlation between SAT and college grades. There's also a correlation between parents income and college grades. And several other things. The common thread - they're almost all related to socio-economic status - the more educated and wealthy the parents, the more successful the student, on average.
- polski-g 7y agoSAT is a proxy for IQ, which is a good predictor for life success, and that includes academic performance.
- threatofrain 7y agoThat sounds like we should just test for IQ.
- polski-g 7y agoEmployers do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test
- C1sc0cat 7y agoSAT is not good if you are neurodiverse
- tuesdayrain 7y agoCan't please everyone.