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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If tests were so easy to game through prepping, then how do you explain the varsity blues scandal? Rich parents paid smart kids to take the test for their kids, or paid proctors to give false/inflated results. [/quote]

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Operation varsity blues highlighted the most selfish, aggressive form of gaming the system. Their kids where too thick to pass the test to the standard that the parents wanted but that doesn't mean that prepping doesn't work. [b]Otherwise equality of outcome across race and class would be the norm.*[/b] 
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* If on average everyone across all races and classes were born with the same abilities and would do everything the same over their lifetime.

Everyone talks about educational achievement gap, nobody talks about the homework gap, which is the average amount of time spent on homework and other educational activities (I’d include prepping here, lol), daily in minutes:

White: 70 min
Black: 48 min
Hispanic: 61 min
Asian: 161 min

Source:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/07311214221101422

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Stunning but underappreciated fact. I mean, Asian:Black > 3.

If you sincerely think that equitable outcomes between Asians and non-Asians are reasonable even given this reality, then you must think non-Asians are significantly smarter than Asians. But if you believe everyone is at parity in raw ability, then it's just not reasonable to think Asians won't excel once you factor in effort.[/quote]

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