B E Smith
@bethbug74.bsky.social
Every time I assume that my audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more, I’m told I think I’m better than they are & need to stop Sounding So Judgmental. Good judgement & intellectual curiosity are now personality flaws, amongst we trained Consumers.
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Every time I assume that my audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more, I’m told I think I’m better than they are & need to stop Sounding So Judgmental. Good judgement & intellectual curiosity are now personality flaws, amongst we trained Consumers.
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This is also my position re: equity concerns. ‘get a good score on the test for which literally thousands of resources to prepare for exist” is far easier for low-SES applicants to navigate than the Byzantine maze of ‘holistic‘ admissions which have lots of unspoken rules, etc
going to reiterate a long time take of mine which is that grades and essays are far worse for disadvantaged groups than the SAT. A student in poorly funded school is generally going to have a worse essay and transcript than someone with a private tutor, meanwhile there are SAT guides on youtube
grades are an extremely messy signal and you do in fact need some kind of universal baseline.
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is also my position re: equity concerns. ‘get a good score on the test for which literally thousands of resources to prepare for exist” is far easier for low-SES applicants to navigate than the Byzantine maze of ‘holistic‘ admissions which have lots of unspoken rules, etc
I’m not even sorry.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m not even sorry.