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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Edit- added that comment to last page.
I think it is interesting that this was what the tests involved- history textbooks (at least the ones I've had) give the impression that the tests were to read difficult passages (maybe some were), and suggest that the issue was a combination of biased proctors and uneducated test takers- it gives the wrong implication that the test might be totally ok if it were given by someone unbiased.
I'm personally against the idea of any sort of test, but for at least some people, the idea of "only smart (whatever that means) people get to vote" makes intrinsic sense.
edited 28th Jun '13 1:53:10 PM by Hodor
Edit, edit, edit, edit the wikiYeah, my high school administered this test one, without saying what it was first to demonstrate to students how unfair they were.
They are impossible to pass. Half the question are worded intentionally dubiously so that you will always get at least one wrong and a single wrong answer is a failing grade.
If you were white, you didn't take it. And even if you did take it, your answers were ruled correct.
The first question: "Draw a circle around the number or letter of this sentence." What? EDIT: Wait, "Draw a line."
I mean, I've had bizarre questions on tests before (For example: "Through which of the 12 tribes of Israel was King David related to the Ark of the Covenant." Answer: "Naphtali". Makes no sense to me) but this test is just full of them.
The grammar is all kinds of screwed up too. I think the people who wrote the test needed a literacy test.
edited 28th Jun '13 2:06:46 PM by Zendervai
Again, the test was very well-written for its purpose. The whole "be careful to read the questions carefully" warning at the top was just to provide a veneer of deniability.
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?....But that not a line.
Check and see if the following statement are true or false.
Read the line below. That statement is true.
Read the line above. That statement is false.
Answer:These statements are both true and false.
edited 28th Jun '13 3:09:18 PM by theweirdKiddokun
The Reaper Games starts anew.![]()
See, that's the point though. Some of the questions have impossible answers, and some have multiple answers. Most white people were either not given the test, or had their scores fudged.
edited 28th Jun '13 3:20:07 PM by DrunkGirlfriend
"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -DrunkscriblerianIt's actually quite easy to have five circles all intersect at exactly one point and nowhere else. Imagine them like keys on a tiny keyring. Stack them all up, pick a point on the stack to be your keyring, then rotate them out in 3D space.
Ironically, that answer probably would've been beyond the people administering the test.
edited 28th Jun '13 5:07:54 PM by Pykrete
Congress is going to recess for 4th of july. Meaning that there will be nothing will be done to keep student loan interest rates from jumping to 6.8%.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry

Oh thats simple.
If you were white you passed the test.