{"id":1196,"date":"2005-05-07T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2005-05-07T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T21:09:00","slug":"1196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE HANDIWORK OF DIVERSITY FUNDAMENTALISTS &#8211; AN APTITUDE TEST THAT REWARDS INEPTITUDE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Under intense pressure <a href=\"http:\/\/aad.english.ucsb.edu\/docs\/blaird.html\">from the radical leftists who control admissions to the University of California system,<\/a> the nation&#8217;s largest and most prestigious state schools, the SAT I had been revised significantly over the years, supposedly to advantage minorities and women by dramatically lowering the performance bar to receive a &#8221; perfect&#8221; score.  In addition, the test structure itself was dramatically altered to include an essay so subjectivity can be used to &#8221; fudge&#8221; the overall test results enough to get the &#8221; correct&#8221; aggregate results.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/04\/education\/04education.html?\"> the SAT now also rewards ignorance so long as you go on at length about what you don&#8217;t really know.<\/a> ( Hat Tip <a href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/mit-professor-blasts-sat-writing-test.html\">Eide Neurolearning Blog<\/a>   )<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color:#000066;\">&#8220;SAT graders are told to read an essay just once and spend two to three minutes per essay, and Dr. Perelman is now adept at rapid-fire SAT grading. This reporter held up a sample essay far enough away so it could not be read, and he was still able to guess the correct grade by its bulk and shape. &#8220;That&#8217;s a 4,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It looks like a 4.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our universities are in the hands of people dedicated to destroying the idea of a university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HANDIWORK OF DIVERSITY FUNDAMENTALISTS &#8211; AN APTITUDE TEST THAT REWARDS INEPTITUDE Under intense pressure from the radical leftists who control admissions to the University of California system, the nation&#8217;s largest and most prestigious state schools, the SAT I had been revised significantly over the years, supposedly to advantage minorities and women by dramatically lowering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}