Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Mississippi ruling was not that the tests themselves were inherently prejudiced, the question of racial, sexual and cultural bias in ETS tests has been coming up for years. Brill cites an ETS study that found a direct, consistent correlation between seven categories of family income and SAT scores: students from wealthy families have higher median board scores than middle-income students, who in turn score higher than low income students. Brill goes on to say that "other ETS data, which ETS Executive Vice President Solomon said could not be made public because 'it would be misinterpreted,' show that...
Along with the frustration of adjusting to a new form Fallows has faced the frustration of overcoming what he sees as the issue-less campaign bias of the press. "You hear complaints about an issue-less campaign, and then you try to get an issue past these reporters. It's like driving through the Notre Dame front line. You just can't do it." Fallows recalls the press reception of a speech Anderson wrote a few months earlier, "the most reasoned and eloquent discourse you'd want to find" about how liberalism and conservatism have changed in recent years...
Hubbard wants a bunch of women to go off to a closet to construct a reality. If we assume Hubbard's sexist bias that they would construct a different reality than a mixed group, then they would necessarily also come up with a lot of ideas that a mixed group could have shot down in a jiffy! What a way to blow time and energy! And what's preventing a woman from proposing ideas in a mixed group anyway...
...other major rating service, had continued to give MAC bonds an A-plus rating. But no one questioned Moody's motives until last week, when Felix Rohatyn, feisty, flamboyant chairman of MAC, demanded that the firm disqualify itself from evaluating MAC bonds because its political bias made it "unfit" A few days later in Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Robert Gerard cautiously agreed that if Moody's were basing its judgment on such political considerations as what the New York legislature might do next, the firm should suspend its rating of MAC bonds...
...manifestly clear that in order to liberate language from all manner of sexist bias [Aug. 9], it should become mandatory that authors and journalists maneuver carefully through our manifold English vocabulary in every way necessary to free the written word from the menial menace of chauvinist prefixes and suffixes. Hopefully, the East Coast editorial establishment will respond to this manifesto, especially those who live and work in Manhattan. If they do not, the only alternative left open to the people is a nationwide personcott of the press...