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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Performance on tests has more to do with how much money parents have to invest in test prep. That is definitely not fair considering the large population in DC that is low-income. This approach only benefits wealthy white parents.[/quote] People keep saying this, and while tests are correlated with parental income, they’re the indicator that’s least correlated with parental income. [/quote] You know test and academic performance is most closely correlated with? Trying really hard. In every school I ever attended, the kids who did the best weren't necessarily the rich kids. It was the kids who studied their asses off. This nonsense about how test-prep-is-destiny is so tiresome. [/quote] Honestly if a test were a perfect predictor of intelligence (g or whatever) and it were uncorrelated with parental income that would mean there would be no returns to intelligence and we would have much bigger problems[/quote]
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