re: #1 freetoken

Even though I think such literacy tests were quite wrong for a supposed democracy, that these Harvard students couldn’t deal with the questions is an indictment of them and their education.

It is altogether possible that the questions themselves were poorly conceived. It is a major problem in any kind of standardized testing that questions designed to ferret out basic comprehension are often ambiguous for students with sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the matter at hand. I don’t know that that was the case in this example, but unless I reviewed that actual questions used, I would have to remain skeptical about the implications regarding the reading comprehension of college students at an elite institution.