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What does favoring culturally mean? Is it not intelligently? [/quote]

A question asks a house has 3 bedrooms and 2 beds in each room.  How many people can sleep in the house.

This is considered culturally biased because black people know that kids can sleep in the floor, two in the hallway, and one in the bathroom(quoting from Diffrent Strokes).

If you ask about how fart a car travels you are culturally biased against poorer people that may not own cars.

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The question is not culturally biased, it's just very badly posed. Any math question should be worded so that it doesn't require any background information. In this case you have to add to the end of the question: "Find the maximum number of people that can sleep assuming each person sleeps in a bed and no more than one person sleeps in each bed." Unfortunately neither mathematicians, scientists, nor engineers came up with the terribly worded questions found on our kids tests. If the 'educators' were educated, we would never run into this problem.[/quote]

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