College graduation rate is a real world outcome, which is author is referring to. You don't have to be particularly good at testing to graduate. Cs get degrees.

College graduation rate is a real world outcome, which is author is referring to. You don't have to be particularly good at testing to graduate. Cs get degrees. A lot of courses are project or paper-based. If all else fails, you can take GPA boosting classes. Of course, the far left will claim that "real world outcomes" are also systemically biased when they don't align with their priors.