yeah, the example only works for young children. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Scott Stroz<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Judah McAuley<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I understand your point. But the question is how the law is written. >> Which is a better approach: do we try and analyze the content of the >> each test and try to somehow neutrally determine whether it is biased >> or do we look at the outcome of the test and judge based off of its >> implementation? >> >> I don't know the specifics of the New Haven test. But I can see a >> situation where I would look at a test and not think anything of it >> because I'm a white dude who is really good at standardized testing, >> whereas it might be rather incomprehensible to someone not of that >> background in spite of the fact that we aren't trying to test how good >> we are at standardized tests. >> >> Why were minorities passing this test at a much lower rate given >> roughly equivalent experience? I got no clue. But is it unreasonable >> to say that the test if flawed if two groups which should perform >> roughly the same are not, even if you don't know the fundamental cause >> of the discrepancy? It wasn't like they said that the white dudes were >> going to take a different, harder test. They just said that test must >> not be a good one if people who ought to be passing are not when the >> only obvious reason is racial background. >> >> > > Only obvious reason does not mean only reason. It is also entirely > possible that all the non-whites who took the test were idiots or > maybe did not prepare as much because they knew that they might be > needed to fill a quota. > > I can understand the Navajo/pizza explanation in that specific case. > But if a Navajo and a white guy have been working at a pizza place for > 3 years and the Navajo still can't answer the question, than odds are > its because he's an idiot and has nothing to do with being a Najavo. > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who > are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas > Jefferson > > http://xkcd.com/386/ > >
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