Razib, I read your post, and I buy the arguments behind why in our society of stratified privilege, eliminating standardized testing will advantage those with connections.
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Replying to @terminalyonline @razibkhan
However, isn't this counterbalanced by the fact that what we're selecting for with standardized testing isn't actually IQ (even if you believe that's a good measure of intellectual worthiness)? It seems like the number one factor is parental educational attainment?
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Replying to @terminalyonline @razibkhan
By eliminating the ACT, for example, there's a trade-off. On the one hand, you get rid of a test that's hard to fake (although Varsity Blues shows that people with means will try), and more spoiled rich slackers go to elite universities.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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It's more complicated than expressed in that tweet of mine, but that 'different take' is entirely wrong.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @CovfefeAnon and
Yes. They’re certainly not smart enough to carry out that level of conspiracy.
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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.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @evo_homo and
The more educated someone is the more they tend to fall in line.
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Because our education system is selecting primarily for people who fall in line
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