Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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.'"

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

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.

Also, SAT holds a large weight to getting into top schools. The correlation between lifetime earnings of the middle/upper class going to a top school is insignificant compared to a lower class student attending a top school. So why not make the lower class more competitive???

I want you to re-read the tweet you're replying to here and just maybe double-check how well this sits with you. If your answer is "just fine, thanks," I don't think I have anything left to say to you.

I sympathize and it doesn’t sit well having to choose, but it seems there’s moral similarities to the trolley problem. A nationally standardized test is a poor system to determine potential aptitude. But if we’re stuck with it then this seems to make up some flaws.