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The Hazards of Standardized Testing

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Are You a Bad Scientist?

He lacked a very important facet of being a scientist, objectivity. He had absolutely pre existing prejudices and ideas that he wanted to confirm with his research. And this is not how you do science. That yields bad science almost every single time. This is something called confirmation bias, but on a much larger, kind of, like institutional level. His tests aren't really meant to determine a person's mental prowess. They're meant to give him his masters and his cronies ammunition for their existing socio political goals. It's a conspiracy.

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