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We’ve done all sorts of dumb things for thousands of years. It’s one metric of many. We know that paying for a tutor can change test scores. We know that a shi
by ceejayoz 1y ago
We’ve done all sorts of dumb things for thousands of years.
It’s one metric of many. We know that paying for a tutor can change test scores. We know that a shitty home life can, too. They’re just harder to measure.
- rayiner 1y agoIf you’re suggesting that having “a shitty home life” can make people perform badly on tests, but not perform badly in real world tasks, we don’t “know” that. It’s something people want to be true, but there’s not much evidence for it. Meanwhile, there’s reams of evidence that standardized tests scores are highly predictive of performance.