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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The return of testing requirements is Jim Crow.

Hopefully the schools will continue to resist.[/quote]

Jim Crow?  How so?  Are black people unable to do well on tests?

Are the tests rigged to favor whites (and for some reason asians do better than whites)?  [/quote]
Questions where black students score well are omitted in the design phase for the SAT.[/quote]

That is categorically untrue.  This same gap (about one standard deviation) is observed on every academic or cognitive test out there.  SAT, ACT, LSAT, ASVAB etc, as well as every IQ test out there.  This gap narrowed a bit in the 70s but has been consistent for the last 50+ years.  Is your assertion that every test designer in the last 50 years has worked together and coordinated so that these tests always come out with a 1 SD gap?[/quote]
No my assertion was about the SAT. You just threw in other tests for histrionics.[/quote]

The SATs are crafted using the exact same psychometric techniques as the other tests.[/quote]

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