Message from @taekahn

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2018-11-03 17:37:18 UTC  

We may hate the rings, but to reach our goals we need to jump through tjem

2018-11-03 17:37:59 UTC  

That is why things like SAT and GRE exist

2018-11-03 17:38:07 UTC  
2018-11-03 17:38:47 UTC  

While I was in the 90th percentile for grades, my ACT for my school was the 10th percentile

2018-11-03 17:39:04 UTC  

18:37] Yugure: We may hate the rings, but to reach our goals we need to jump through tjem

nope

2018-11-03 17:39:13 UTC  

Your 2.3 GPA was 90th percentile? For your school?

2018-11-03 17:39:36 UTC  

Not surprising with high school these days.

2018-11-03 17:39:37 UTC  

sat is flawed as well since at best it just determines one type of metric for intelligence at worst it rewards socioeconomic status because the top 10% school track essentially prepares students their whole lives for standardized testing

2018-11-03 17:39:42 UTC  

Yep, my school was essentially where as long as you turned in homework you ended in the 3.0s at least

2018-11-03 17:40:18 UTC  

On top of the fact we also had some really easy blowoff electives to boost gpa

2018-11-03 17:40:37 UTC  

a good sat score just means you were well prepared,studied hard and are good at taking a specific style of standardized test

2018-11-03 17:40:39 UTC  

Okay. All of this is kind of a sideways discussion, though. The efficiency of measuring merit is not a mark against using merit as a metric.

2018-11-03 17:41:24 UTC  

exactly, so nothing is better than action, so do something with what you learned, harder with abstract sciences

2018-11-03 17:41:41 UTC  

yeah, that's exactly what it means. That's why its an equalizer in a system where you can't rely solely on gpa

2018-11-03 17:41:43 UTC  

So Ben and Jerry released a new flavor and spent one hour talking about everything but what the flavor is

2018-11-03 17:41:49 UTC  

everyone has equal oppertunity to study for the sat

2018-11-03 17:42:04 UTC  

The flavor is orange man bad

2018-11-03 17:42:23 UTC  

@Zuihou completely irrelevant and besides your life goals, get it tiger!

2018-11-03 17:42:52 UTC  

@taekahn but if you suck the proff you get it easier in life? no thanks

2018-11-03 17:43:00 UTC  

that said a rich person who doesn't get into a top school and blames aa or a poor person who can't get in through sat scores can still navigate their way to get top marks at a 2 year school and still graduate from a top uni since most school's have a merit based transfer system anyone can work their way to achieving

2018-11-03 17:43:08 UTC  

where the fuck did i say anything like that

2018-11-03 17:43:20 UTC  

This also points out another problem with a purely meritocratic system, there is simply no such thing as a good metric for it. There needs to be other metrics to round out it's flaws

2018-11-03 17:43:22 UTC  

any private uni is a cash whore

2018-11-03 17:43:26 UTC  

Even the one organization that is against climate change stated report sighting how cows are the leading cause of global warming and is promoting an ice cream company that uses cows

2018-11-03 17:43:28 UTC  

any imbecile with cash can pass

2018-11-03 17:43:43 UTC  

@Zuihou ok now that is funny

2018-11-03 17:44:00 UTC  

well, you're free to come up with a better system than SAT and GRE for determining academic merit

2018-11-03 17:44:06 UTC  

oh, you haven't. ok

2018-11-03 17:46:16 UTC  

@taekahn how about no system, grade them on "passed" or "not", test for IQ, give more support to those who have cognitive handicaps

2018-11-03 17:46:40 UTC  

IQ is a flawed test as well.

2018-11-03 17:46:45 UTC  

bullshit

2018-11-03 17:46:53 UTC  

accept iq or reject all social sciences

2018-11-03 17:47:14 UTC  

IQ is also a horrible metric, you would need to test them for EQ in tandum with it

2018-11-03 17:47:39 UTC  

IQ is number one most researched parameter in social sciences and most of social sciences base themselves off of cognitive research

2018-11-03 17:47:47 UTC  

EQ is non existent

2018-11-03 17:47:57 UTC  

> racist border fences

2018-11-03 17:48:31 UTC  

also, IQ just as g are parameters which show broad range of cognitive capabilities so a smart person is smart in many things and dumb is dumb in many things

2018-11-03 17:48:42 UTC  

@Zuihou racism? you must be new on this planet

2018-11-03 17:49:16 UTC  

>tfw Emotional cognitive intelligence is non-existent

2018-11-03 17:49:19 UTC  

You can improve your IQ test by studying, therefore it is going to be subject to the exact same criticisms you level at SAT and GRE scores.

2018-11-03 17:49:30 UTC  

We need to document how a fence is racist