The basic concept seems to be that test takers today do not do nearly as well as test takers from a few decades ago.
Should we ask questions about our education system and why it churns out low achievers?
Should we ask questions about today’s parenting and why kids don’t seem studious and disciplined?
Should we ask questions about demographics and the bell curve?
Or should we “re-center” the tests to hide the fact that our nation is in decline?
“ Engineering and the “hard” sciences, for example, retain reputations for being “harder” subjects than the humanities and social sciences, even though a naïve observer could just as well assume that students in the latter subjects are smarter.”
Reputation for being harder and harder is put in scare quotes lol
Was this written by a butt hurt “journalist “ major. I majored in engineering, and it is harder than the “studies”.
Although I would surely have got an F in DEI class by prof 😂
When I was courting my future wife, who is considerably younger than I am, our SAT scores came up. Her verbal was considerably higher than mine, which was not awful.
She sweetly mentioned the recalibration to me, to spare my feelings.
“… just as an “A+” history grad will be chosen ahead of an “A-” history grad.”
Why would someone need to be choosing a history grad for ANY job?
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