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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.

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    1. Neil Breen‏ @terminalyonline Oct 14
      Replying to @terminalyonline @razibkhan

      But on the other hand, a bunch of naturally gifted people with high-IQ but low test scores due to confounding environmental factors like family instability, language barrier etc. now have a fighting chance to learn alongside the elite?

      5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 Oct 14
      Replying to @terminalyonline @razibkhan

      Standardized test were, and are, good at finding the bright kids, whether they come from money or not. Getting rid of them eases the way for people with pull, which is why getting rid of them is happening.

      1 reply 19 retweets 69 likes
    3. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon Oct 15
      Replying to @gcochran99 @terminalyonline @razibkhan

      This is still the optimistic take - that decisions are being made for a sensible if socially sub-optimal reason. A different take is that they want to exclude intelligence because intelligent people cause all kinds of problems as the orthodoxy gets stupider and crazier.

      2 replies 2 retweets 29 likes
    4. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 Oct 15
      Replying to @CovfefeAnon @terminalyonline @razibkhan

      It's more complicated than expressed in that tweet of mine, but that 'different take' is entirely wrong.

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    5. Evo‏ @evo_homo Oct 15
      Replying to @gcochran99 @CovfefeAnon and

      Yes. They’re certainly not smart enough to carry out that level of conspiracy.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon Oct 15
      Replying to @evo_homo @gcochran99 and

      They don't need to conspire exactly - just all have the right emotion of distrust of markers of intelligence while feeling good when seeing the markers of orthodoxy. Seems to me to be what we see out of admissions committees rather than straight up nepotism.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    7. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 Oct 15
      Replying to @CovfefeAnon @evo_homo and

      The swing towards dropping standardized tests doesn't come out of the admissions committees, but from management, which to a large extent flows from changes in the attitudes of influential people.

      1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
    8. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 Oct 15
      Replying to @gcochran99 @CovfefeAnon and

      Nepotism is easier in the absence of standardized tests: recommendations& spending summer in Costa Rica making blind men lame are more accessible to people with connections and money.

      1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes
    9. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 Oct 15
      Replying to @gcochran99 @CovfefeAnon and

      Bigly influenced by Asian success on standardized tests: unwelcome competition. By persistent (permanent) low scores from POC - white liberals are, maybe, giving up on environmental improvements solving gaps...

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    10. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 Oct 15
      Replying to @gcochran99 @CovfefeAnon and

      But you can't really put it entirely, or maybe even mostly, into a self-interested rational framework. These people are crazy.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon Oct 15
      Replying to @gcochran99 @evo_homo and

      Yes, it doesn't fit as a rational response - it's an emotional reaction to the fact that they're wrong about the distribution of intelligence across human groups - they emotionally distrust markers of intelligence because if they didn't, they would produce "incorrect" results

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        2. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon Oct 15
          Replying to @CovfefeAnon @gcochran99 and

          It doesn't come from admissions committees but at the same time it doesn't exactly come from any big influential people either - just that the admissions committee members and the influential people are conforming to the same social pressures.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon Oct 15
          Replying to @CovfefeAnon @gcochran99 and

          That pressure isn't only about ignoring *markers* of intelligence - that pressure includes actual hostility to the idea of intelligence. This feeds on itself because it's far easier to be orthodox in 2021 if you're stupid - or can fake it.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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        1. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 Oct 15
          Replying to @CovfefeAnon @evo_homo and

          Everything that has ever happened suggests that they were wrong about talent being equally distributed. Not a new discovery.

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