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.
-
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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 -
Replying to @CovfefeAnon @evo_homo and
Dissect and look at the sources of the Nile: a lot is influenced by the vagaries of the New York Times, which is again influenced by ad revenue drying up and being replaced by a model of selling subscriptions to enthusiasts.
2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @gcochran99 @evo_homo and
Certainly an element but the subscribing enthusiast isn't an uncaused cause, they're part of the feedback cycle.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CovfefeAnon @evo_homo and
The alternative was bankruptcy or a patron.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
But what drives the escalating taste for this madness by their subscriber-patrons? Partly it's preference cascade as each more extreme movement is met only by cheers. That preference cascade can happen without the NYT in particular.
-
Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.