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one test, same day, pretending 30 million different childhoods are comparable.
means a uniform exam used to rank people against each other under the assumption that identical conditions produce fair comparisons.
from traces to imperial china's civil service exams, then formalized by 20th-century psychometricians like alfred binet, whose iq test was meant to help struggling students, not sort everyone for life.
binet's warninghe said his test shouldn't measure fixed intelligence
sat name changecollege board dropped what the acronym stood for in 1993
test prep industryworth billions, proving the test measures resources too