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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only an American would argue that PP is wrong.

In my Asian country, students on track to attend university are expected to work at the standard that would earn them a score of at least 500 on SATs by age 13 or 14, not 17 or 18.

Only in the US would parents argue that a easy college admissions test is racist because so many poor students score low on it. The problem is that schools and living conditions for poor kids usually aren't very good in this country. The answer isn't to make the already easy SAT easier/less academic.[/quote]

Only in DC would such a wildly uniformed person stride into a conversation and make idiotic pronouncements without bothering to read the discussion that's gone before.

As has been discussed repeatedly, [b]the best make the SAT more equitable is to make it HARDER[/b], which is what many people who point out the clear pro-white, pro-rich bias of the test are arguing for.

Also, discounting the long discussion upthread about the explicitly racist origins of the SAT (or the "Alpha test" as the white supremacist and eugenicist who invented it originally called it) is wildly disingenuous.

The differences between college admissions tests used in Asia that are designed to test specific, clearly defined content knowledge versus the SAT (a test explicitly designed to test the genetic aptitude of different ethnic groups) has likewise been covered in depth.

PP, were you too lazy to read the previous discussion, or are you intentionally being obtuse by blathering about making the test easier (which, as has been discussed at length, has been repeatedly done and has made bias WORSE)?

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