Word: nairn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...findings against social bias in the tests have drawn fire from consumer advocates Ralph Nader and Allan Nairn, who co-authored a 1980 report on test bias that led to legislation in New York State forcing partial disclosure of SAT results...
Nader and Nairn denounced the committee's report two weeks ago calling it "a compilation of the testing industry line on various issues." Rep Theodore S. Weiss (D N Y), who has twice proposed federal Truth in Testing bills to regulate the tests, called the recommendations disappointingly moderate...
...know what the problem is." Klitgaard said of the Nader and Nairn reactions, adding that the disagreements about prediction are not so much about the actual statistics as what admission offices should do about them. Critics of testing recommend eliminating standardized tests altogether, and "try to imply that it makes no difference [in prediction] whether you use scores or not." Klitgaard said Such an approach "masks idealogical value questions in a scientific aura," he added...
...Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Nairn and French Neurobiologist Jacques Le Magnen spoke to a gathering sponsored by the European Chemoreception Research Organization, joining some two dozen other scholars who reported on such topics as the sniffing power of infants, the sex life of guinea pigs and a three-nation T shirt-smelling study...
...evidence, in both rats and humans, that each new tasty food produces a conditioned insulin release. In other words, even if a varied meal and a one-food meal are equal in size and good taste, the varied meal may prove more fattening because it increases appetite. According to Nairn, the best way for humans to lose weight may be to adopt a varied and revolting diet: food that is too sweet one day, too salty the next, or alternately bitter and sour...