Something is going to make and break futures. What should it be?
One subtle problem with standardized tests is that they need sufficiently "hard" questions to produce results on a bell curve, and chasing this tail may cause a descent into pure trivia. This is how "emollient" & "adumbrate" end up on the SAT, where they can make & break futures.
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Have been thinking about this question *a lot* lately
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Much of the time, they're identifying students whose parents will do whatever it takes to *make* their kids win — a former dean of admissions at Stanford wrote a great book on the growing numbers of these groomed applicants & how they flounder in adulthoodhttps://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Adult-Overparenting-Prepare-ebook/dp/B00OO2LJS2 …
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Is it really unambiguous that "emollient" & "adumbrate" are pure trivia? It’s not hard to make the case that aptitude, intellectual curiosity and conscientiousness would make one more likely to know them.
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Aptitude, intellectual curiosity, & conscientiousness make a person more likely to know a lot of trivia within fields of interest; someone without these traits knows fewer extraneous facts. A well-read kid will do well on these tests — but a prep-drilled kid can surpass him.
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Huh? The actual problem is that the SAT has been watered down time and again such that it now has a low ceiling and poor discrimination at the right tail.
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I like adumbrate. Encountered it in jurisprudence textbook while on a cruise trip with no internet; we tried figuring it out, I searched my 1Tb files. No success. The relief when coming to the shore! The chagrin of realising how obvious it was! And that is why I say foreshadow!
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