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I love you posting on here. I can get overwhelmed because your arguments and opinions are complex and richly layered with personal insight, emotional reveals, expertise from experience, and academic insight, and I want to "do right" by them—i think it’d be easy to overlook the... I want to get a bit concrete here. There is a bunch of work about experiment / survey / psychometric testing design that has all kinds of tools that seem useful here. I’m in no way an expert here, or even barely experienced.... - MossyMoni...
- annabeth...
Tech guy thinks it’s possible! I just did a manual test drive of this teal-adjusted scoring system with the results of 18 people I know, and here’s the average: Average of original 18 scores: Teal 26% Amber 25% Green 24% Red 12% Orange 10% Magenta 6% Average of same 18... - annabeth...
I just test drove a version of this scoring system on my own results, and it’s a MASSIVE difference. What I did was every color I selected as "false, wrong, or just doesn’t make sense" I docked 3 points off the Teal answer for that question (the max points Teal can get on any... - annabeth...
I had some long discussions with people like Ellyn and Thea about their disagreement; I think they were still missing the point because the large body of work about coming up with scores, as I understood (or misunderstood it) was more about assigning something that could be... - xander...
I think it’s worth noting here that the original intent of the IQ test was to "… identify those who may need extra help or have learning disabilities …" and if we only used it in this context, it would help identify where systems/behaviors cause disparities, as implied above....