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by tomp
3849 days ago
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> For predicting college performance, its a very weak predictor of college grades That's interesting. Naively, I would expect SAT correlated with IQ, and that correlated with success in university. Are there better predictors of college grades? > where the measure reflects disadvantage of circumstance rather than lack of merit Hm... I can hardly imagine how a bad score on the math SAT would not indicate that you lack merit in math. > I never said they were. Well, then it doesn't much matter which definition of merit (who is better) you take (as you claim in your original response to me)... |
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Yes, it does.
The definition of merit is necessary to assess whether the current system is, excluding AA, actually meritocratic, as claimed. While it would also be necessary in order to assess whether one race or another was better than another, if that were an interesting question to answer -- the fact that I'm not asserting that one race is better doesn't alter the fact that an actual definition of merit is necessary for the claim that the existing system (but for AA) is meritocratic to even have meaning.