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Redundancy testing - Charles Murray, erstwhile champion of the SAT, has changed his mind about the test - and says it's time to scrap it [Corrected 08/13/07]
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Charles Murray has turned against the SAT. Yes, that Charles
Murray.
The author of the controversial 1994 book ''The Bell Curve'' and
champion of IQ tests might be the last person in the world you'd
expect to object to a test that boils academic aptitude down to a
couple of numbers burned into students' memories for life.
Yet Murray has just invigorated the anti-SAT cause with a
manifesto titled ''Abolish the SAT'' in The American, a magazine
published by the American Enterprise Institute, where he's a senior
scholar. That the SAT is superfluous - worse, outright bad for ...
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