Can we please keep that spirit in mind here and allow more politically themed posts in this specific thread, so long as they don't veer into the territory of stating or insinuating that a specific identifiable group (race, gender, etc) being somehow less intrinsically suited to certain paths
In 2020 and 2021, in the wake of greater attention paid to what is termed racial inequity in the U.S., many selective public schools with test-based admissions, such as Lowell in San Francisco and Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, have abandoned their admissions policies, because they had too few black and Hispanic students. All standardized tests in the U.S., whether IQ, SAT and ACT, NAEP, state-wide achievement tests, or exam school tests, exhibit substantial differences in results by race. Those tests have not been found to be biased against blacks and Hispanics in the sense of underpredicting future academic performance. So in deciding whether test-based admissions is fair, it should not matter to what extent the reason for demographic test score differences is "intrinsic".
