Harvard class fails (1964) Literacy Test

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Re: Harvard class fails (1964) Literacy Test

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Trivial, just bend local space into continuous curvature. Say, a black hole might help :wink:
If we have ourselves a convenient and portable black hole, why not just use it to dispose of the racist douches who wrote this test? That'd be far more entertaining to watch. :)
First word beginning with "L". Meaning, "last". But can also be "literacy" I guess :P
Yes but it doesn't say to pull the letter from the sentence itself. They obviously expect one to find a letter in a number, of course. :-P
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Borgholio wrote:
Trivial, just bend local space into continuous curvature. Say, a black hole might help :wink:
If we have ourselves a convenient and portable black hole, why not just use it to dispose of the racist douches who wrote this test? That'd be far more entertaining to watch. :)

I think that at the time this test was in use Jim Crow laws would prevent using a black hole to dispose of white trash.
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I think that at the time this test was in use Jim Crow laws would prevent using a black hole to dispose of white trash.
So they would have forcibly segregated the black holes and white holes?
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Borgholio wrote:
I think that at the time this test was in use Jim Crow laws would prevent using a black hole to dispose of white trash.
So they would have forcibly segregated the black holes and white holes?
Precisely. Which means white trash get thrown into the backward parallel universe where they get ass-raped by their own shit every time they take a hard dump, to mix Star Trek: The Animated Series and Red Dwarf references. No objection.

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Re: Harvard class fails (1964) Literacy Test

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The debate about the definition of a line is exactly what is wrong with this test. There is common colloquial definition versus mathematical academic definition.
Difference in definitions of same word is common when you are looking at it from academic discipline to academic discipline or to colloquial use... or even the same academic discipline with different textbook authors providing their own definition.
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The very fact that there's a debate going on illustrates explicitly why this test was so broken and unethical (apart from the whole denying voting rights upon the basis of race thing). Even if the person taking the test managed to complete it in time, all the examiner has to do is say it's wrong, and the definitions in question being used are completely changeable. A line can't be a circle, or can it?

It's a pretty good illustration of how to fuck people over in a surprisingly intelligent manner... but they're none the less fucked for it.
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