Reply #22: The Luck of the Draw [View All]

[SoDesuKa]

I didn't learn math in high school, and when I learned it later on, the career damage was done. If I'd learned it sooner, I'd have been a lot better off. You don't have to be particularly unlucky to be badly taught math, because math is badly taught just about everywhere. You do have to be lucky to get a good teacher early enough so that you don't suffer from math-phobia until it's too late to reverse the career consequences of bad teaching.

SAT does not correct for bad luck as the name Scholastic Aptitude Test would imply - that's why they changed the name. The SAT test acts as a multiplier of bad luck. The existence of a phony aptitude test suggests an underlying fairness that simply isn't there. It's a fraud. More power to the cheaters! They should be praised, not prosecuted.



Roulette outcomes are fair, but SAT results are fraudulent.