The problem was never with reducing human beings to numbers. It was that there weren't enough numbers!https://nypost.com/2019/05/19/adversity-scores-only-invite-a-new-quest-for-victimhood/ …
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I'm stunned with the extent to which we've convinced ourselves that standardized rubrics make sense in the real world, where you may well end up saying something like "well, he saw his father shoot his mother when he was 9, but he got high marks for 'neighborhood' and 'school.'"
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Any parallels to this (as you’ve stated) with population ethics. The majority of kids from bad neighborhoods and poor schools also have higher rates of the violence you’re pointing out. Shit can happen everywhere, but the majority who are exposed to shit come from the lower class
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Data shows that wealth and parents correlates to a higher SAT score (adequate exposure of test prep). If you never had the means to acquire the same prep, then aren’t you just being pitted against a standardized test that favors the affluent? Doesn’t seem to help the bottom.
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Centralization requires standardization; standardization requires legibility; legibility requires the dismissal of the nuanced, the individual, the conditional; and that dismissal is pitiless, insofar as it regards just such ridiculous conclusions as an acceptable cost.
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I just DMed you about an article I'm writing on scale and legibility. Would you be interested in reading a draft?
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The cynical side of me feels like we should just add an essay section where kids can talk about how disadvantaged they are
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People really overstate their ability to outperform standard metrics. I.e. gpa/scores/resume are much better at explaining performance than interviews.
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