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Andreessen: SAT score cap reduces demographic distinctiveness rather than unearthing talent
“It's capped at 800 because there's just constant pressure on the SAT to equalize itself by demographic group. And so the overwhelming priority at the company that does the SAT is to actually try to reduce group distinctiveness, right? As opposed to unearth tal…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 1:05:15 Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: Standardized college admission exams correlate highly with IQ tests
“Those tests from a, just a clinical standpoint, like those in sort of clinical psychology psychometrics, those tests are all proxies for an IQ test. Those are all sort of, those are all sort of roughly equivalent to just a straight IQ test. Highly correlated t…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 13, 2024 ▶ 23:17 Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
Assertion Partly supported
Horowitz: SAT was created to bypass aristocratic gatekeeping in higher education
“The SAT was invented because it used to be only like nobles, you know, the elite, the aristocrats, people from rich families got to go to college.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 1:25:59 Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
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