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		okaram on May 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ ... What do you mean by merit? Ability? Capacity? Effort? Worthiness? Ability at what? Are the SATs a good measure of that?

_a3nw on May 18, 2019 [–]

Probably the best/ most ubiquitous method we have right now.

It would be trivial to improve our tests of merit compared to the almost impossible task of testing how well a student would do free from environmental factors.

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