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DP.  The current SAT is so far removed from the test of previous generations that[b] it shouldn't have the same name anymore[/b].  So equating it with eugenics of the 1920s is just bizarre.  [/quote]

Funny you should say that.  Per the College Board, SAT is no longer an acronym for Scholastic Aptitude Test, it's just a word that happens to be all caps.  Why?  Because the "Aptitude" being tested was originally conceived of as genetic and impacted heavily by race.

Yes, the test has changed a lot over the years, but telling non-white parents that they should just trust that everything's good now with a test ORIGINALLY EXPLICITLY DESIGNED TO KEEP THEIR ANCESTORS OUT OF COLLEGE is really asking quite a lot, particularly given that the test continues to show racial and economic bias.

Somehow I doubt that all of the SAT proponents on this thread would embrace a test designed explicitly to show that white people were inferior, despite any tweaks to the test. Particularly if there was ongoing evidence of bias in the test.

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(But the [b]median scores of white kids are lower than those of Asian kids on the SAT and other standardized tests.[/b] A fact that is conveniently glossed over or framed as  "white/Asian" scores. If white people want to go on about "racial superiority" they are very loose with the facts).[/quote]
Yes, so if the test format really does heavily favors whites and blatantly discriminates against other groups on the "easy questions," how is it that Asians, including low SES Asians, score much higher overall than other minorities?  Hint: most of them study hard from a young age because their families expect them to...[/quote]

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