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Occasional Reader5/29/2009 1:53:17 pm PDT

re: #131 zombie

That was a different test — the one I’m thinking of was in the ’80s, I believe. The infamous “BITCH-100 test” in your link was nothing but pure cultural bias rendered in test form — quite the opposite of the way standardized tests are designed, in which bias, if any, is very subtle and hard to pinpoint. The BITCH-100 test asked things about James Brown and chitlin’s and stuff like that. More of a joke to prove a point rather than an actual test.


That’s the one I was thinking of, too… the infamous BITCH test, which proved the utterly non-controversial point that of course a test CAN be designed to be completely culturally biased. As if anyone ever doubted that.