| ▲ | ceejayoz 12 hours 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 12 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
If 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. | |||||||||||||||||
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