Word: overpredict
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...performance of various ethnic groups." In 1983, for instance, 570 Blacks had combined SAT scores above 1200, compared to 60,400 whites--numbers which are also disproportionate to the numbers of the groups taking the test. More troubling, according to his research, standardized test scores tend to overpredict the academic performance of Blacks at the right tail...
...late as 1980, when a controversial report by an assistant to President Bok suggested that achievement scores of minorities and women overpredict their College academic performance, the BSA was highly visible. More than 200 students protested then, demanding a retraction of the report and the anger helped to forget a University wide Black students coalition...
...FALL of 1980, The Crimson disclosed a preliminary report prepared by one of Bok's special assistants which purported to show that high test scores for Blacks and women tend to overpredict their academic performance while in college. The Klitgaard report caused much controversy, for many Blacks argued that the study's premises threatened their right to be at Harvard. Bok refused to disavow the report, instead planing the blame for the upset on the study's disclosure...
...report whose preliminary draft sparked protests on campus last fall because of its suggestion that admissions test scores overpredict the performance of some Black and woman students is now "all done" and will be circulated among academic deans within several months...
...Amherst Colleges occurred last fall; a new president perceived as a threat to affirmative action was elected; and events at Harvard aggravated the tension. In mid-October, a preliminary report on Harvard admissions prepared by an assistant to Bok was disclosed. The report said that high test scores often overpredict the academic performance of women and minorities at schools like Harvard, a finding which Third World students called "invalid" and "racist." In early November, the president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, received a death and rape threat from an as yet undetermined caller warning...