Okay, just tried to go watch #GoT and got sucked into @iamjohnoliver's bit about standardized testing, which was great, and let me tell you…
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…their "psychometrics expert" take a look at it, and eeeeverything was fine. No recourse. Result? I signed up for the test again, paid…
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…for it again, took it again, and got a score around 98%. According to
@ExcelsiorColl I guess I must have studied real hard! -
That gives me an idea of the kind of total fuckup rampant in the standardized testing world and what the level of accountability for it is.
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@chaosprime You are being unfair. Standardized testing is every bit as much of an exact science as feng shui. -
@StevenBrust@chaosprime if it’s not subjective it must therefore be objective and therefore true.#science -
@XaiaX@chaosprime Why, I'd never thought of it that way before. -
@StevenBrust@chaosprime I think it’s genuinely the problem with such things. People mistake quantifiable for important, objective for fair. -
@XaiaX@StevenBrust You're not wrong. I wish I had any hope of finding the SMBC comic about measurability bias. - 5 more replies
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