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		criddell on Dec 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own A lot of your criticisms of the essay apply to standardized tests as well.

chinchilla2020 on Dec 7, 2022 [–]

Sure, they do.

But a math test is a pretty accurate test of someone's mathematical skill.

An essay about life is a much more dubious and lacks a quantitative rubric for comparing candidates.

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