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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 364: Absolute Proof (Citation Needed)
LordoftheMorons 02/10/21 6:31:30 PM #207:	red sox 777 posted... There are many kids who would thrive at a more challenging school who won't be selected to go there because the system misses their potential. The lottery will miss most of these students too. Regardless of what you think we should be selecting for a lottery is strictly worse than picking based on whatever your preferred metric is. The argument seems to be that because testing/grades/etc are not absolutely perfectly correlated with making the best choice we should just throw them out and use no information whatsoever, which makes no sense. --- Congrats to azuarc, GotD2 Guru champ! <cite>LordoftheMorons posted [p:950500887] in Politics C... [t:79282723]...</cite> <quote>red sox 777 posted... </cite> <quote>There are many kids who would thrive at a more challenging school who won't be selected to go there because the system misses their potential.</quote>The lottery will miss most of these students too. Regardless of what you think we should be selecting for a lottery is strictly worse than picking based on whatever your preferred metric is. The argument seems to be that because testing/grades/etc are not absolutely perfectly correlated with making the best choice we should just throw them out and use no information whatsoever, which makes no sense. --- Congrats to azuarc, GotD2 Guru champ!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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