John K.
If it were so cut and dry as you make it out to be, I would agree with the solution. After all, you said it yourself: The source of the article should not matter. The idea is to test verbal acuity. However, some of the factors that people bring into the discussion are utterly irrelevant. What does the education of the parents have to do with anything? My parents barely made it through high school, never read anything more challenging than a slutty novel, and yet I scored very high on the SAT. Oh, and my high school was one of the lowest-ranked schools in New Jersey, so that factor also doesn’t hold water. Much of the charges against the SAT test are based on correlations that are questionable at best. I do, however, agree with the person who mentioned that children in families that speak English sporadically would have a more difficult time with the verbal section. One thing though…aren’t the math scores also lower? How does that follow?
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