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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, testing is "biased."
Teacher observations are "biased."

At what point do you not get to blame "bias"? [/quote]

Bias is a real thing.  Do you also believe that climate change is a myth and that dinosaurs lived on earth at the same time as modern humans?[/quote]

Teacher bias was studied in 2005, when a team of researchers [b]gave 207 elementary school teachers vignettes about a student with gifted traits and asked them to decide whether the student should be considered for accelerated classes.[/b] A third of the teachers were told the student they were considering was white, a third were told the student was black, and a third weren’t told the student’s race. [b]Teachers who believed the student was African-American were least likely to recommend accelerated [/b]

But yea, no bias there.  :roll: [/quote]

And what  was the percentage of the difference? Of course there is some bias in all systems, based on race, gender, wait and all kinds of factors.  Where the teachers twice as likely to identify whites as blacks  for recommendation, wasn't more than that, or less?  I don't think anyone is saying bias doesn't exist. But, so much emphasis is placed on the degree of bias that it seems out of proportion to its actual existence.  So, what were the numbers like? [/quote]

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