Word: predicting
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...result of irresponsible reporting or the irresponsible nature of Klitgaard's assertions, or a combination thereof, is open to question. For example, his primary assertion is "...that women and minorities at top universities often do not perform as well academically as their high academic aptitude test scores would predict." This is later rendered unclear by his claim that "...the tests themselves are not biased as far as predicting academic success. A math score of 400 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, for instance, predicts college grades about as accurately for women, Blacks, Hispanics, and the poor as it does for other...
...sham, and perhaps justifiably so, according to a recently released report. Robert Klitgaard, associate professor at the Kennedy School, recently released the preliminary findings of his study which found that "women and minorities at top universities often do not perform as well academically as their high aptitude tests would predict." He goes on to say that the reverse is true for Jewish students. But Prof. Klitgaard doesn't stop there. Because of this "problem" with standardized tests, affirmative action programs tend to create a student body with a wide disparity of academic capabilities. Klitgaard's solution to the "problem": perhaps...
...Hugh Sidey quotes "St. Harry" in an effort to deny Jimmy Carter his right to be warmly human. That is an irony we ordinary folk can hardly comprehend. Where was Sidey when Truman was trying to associate Henry Wallace with the Communists? We re-elected Harry in 1948; I predict we will re-elect Jimmy in 1980. He is one of us. Earl D. Martin Gloucester...
...report stated that at the end of a distribution of aptitude test scores, "women perform slightly worse than their scores would predict; blacks also perform worse...
...women and minorities at top universities like Harvard often do not perform as well academically as their high aptitude test scores would predict...