Actually, the city was wrong in my mind. They DIDN'T pull it because they thought it unfair, they pulled it because they were afraid they were going to get SUED because someone else thought it wasn't fair.
Had they pulled it because it wasn't fair, it probably would have stood. Pulling it because they were afraid of a suit was not fair to the people who passed. Or so ruled the sc. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > This, as I understand it, is basically what they were doing. The city > said, "crap, this test doesn't seem to be treating everyone the same, > so lets pull it and reevaluate, see what went wrong". The guys that > passed the test said, "hey, no fair! We just passed that test. You > can't pull it and put in a new one and make us take it again". > > I can totally see the side of the guys that passed. I don't think they > are racists. But I also don't think that the city was wrong either > from what I can tell. > > Judah > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Michael > Dinowitz<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So the next step is to determine if it is the test or something else. > > It should be child's play to find which questions are regularly being > > answered incorrectly by all/some/specific minority groups and question > > them on why they answered the way they did. We should be able to tell > > if the question was wrong or the specific culture would not follow the > > rule that the question represented. And if the culture is 'wrong', how > > do we deal with it. > > And yes, a culture can be wrong. Theft (as a general example) is wrong > > by societies rules and if a culture allows it then who is right, the > > culture or the society? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299315 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
