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To: kabumpo

>> It wasn’t boiler plate.

Well, yeah, it was. Sorry, I know you’re righteous, but posting the same copied text with no individual comment — indeed, essentially no comment at all — is posting boilerplate. How about posting once to all four miscreants then?

>> I deliberately posted it as a reply to each person who was (ignorantly) dismissing the test as “trivial” and “easy”.

It’s not at all ignorant to dismiss this test as trivial and easy, because, truth be told, it IS pretty trivial and pretty easy, if you can think. I can’t count the number of IQ, GRE, military acceptance, etc. tests I have taken that have QUITE SIMILAR questions.

The problems instead lie in the fact that grading it can be subjective, and more importantly, the test was given distinctively to blacks, not across the board to all voters. It was also given an arbitrary and, it appears, unreasonable “passing” threshold.

In my view, your failure to understand and acknowledge these truths, coupled with your broadcast of your own cherry picked example, indicate that you have predjudicial issue of your own.


155 posted on 06/29/2013 8:53:56 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Nervous Tick
... truth be told, it IS pretty trivial and pretty easy, if you can think.

Which is of the following is the correct answer to question 27?
"right"
"right from the left to the right"
"right from the left to the right as you see it spelled here"

181 posted on 06/29/2013 9:28:34 PM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: Nervous Tick

Again, the example I posted from Alabama showed that whites were given two lines of third grade level writing to read, and blacks were given a long passage of complex legalese to read. If you can’t see what is wrong with that, one wonders how you passed any test of any kind, since you seem to have impaired reading comprehension.


219 posted on 06/29/2013 11:33:48 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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