Check out the poll exams that were used 150 years ago to keep niggers from voting. Questions like "place a circle above the third vowel in this sentence."
There was nothing about the test, the court just said that because blacks/hispanics failed more often, the test must be racist. Courts in blue states are full of Marxist scum.
Communication Skills: After reading the passage, choose, from among the five given, the best answer to the question.
"Social and scientific revolutions must be sharply distinguished. Social revolutions are restricted to a particular time and place; they last for a while and then pass into history. Scientific revolutions, on the other hand, belong to all places and all times."
The primary purpose of the statement is to:
(A) argue that advances made in science cannot be undone or forgotten
(B) identify several important aspects of scientific and social revolutions
(C) discuss the social consequences of scientific revolutions
(D) point out a fundamental difference between social revolutions and scientific revolutions
(E) suggest that the importance of social revolutions is frequently overestimated
Usage: The portion of the following sentence printed in bold presents a problem in the appropriate use of language. Choose from the following ways of rewriting the bold portion, the best--clearest, most exact--expression, without changing the meaning of the original:
"Conservationists want to preserve stretches of 'wild' rivers, those whose banks are still unobstructed by buildings and uncontaminated by wastes in their waters."
(A)uncontaminated by wastes in their waters
(B)whose waters are uncontaminated by wastes
(C)whose waters are without wastes contaminating them
(D)by wastes contaminating their waters
(E)wastes contaminating their waters
Mathematics: 2/3 is between the numbers given in each of the following pairs EXCEPT
(A) 0 and 1
(B) 1/2 and 3/4
(C) 2 and 3
(D) .6 and .7
(E) .5 and .8
Science: The finding of fossils of marine animals in the upper reaches of a mountain would indicate that the mountain was
(A) formed by volcanic action
(B) undergoing severe erosion
(C) undergoing very little erosion
(D) located in an area of extensive fauna
(E) formed by an uplift of the Earth's crust
Social Studies: During a recession in the United States, unemployment is likely to be highest among which of the following groups?
I could make an argument for A, B, D and E. I was able to get the correct answer, but only by test taking experience and assuming that the test was likely written by a midwit.
On the other hand almost all uses of scientific "revolution" have little reason to be called that and would be better served by saying evolution or advancement.
About the only true revolution in western science was the divorcing of natural sciences from needing to agree with Catholic orthodoxy or ancient pedagogy during the Renaissance/enlightenment. That's the only time the once ultimate authority over science was usurped and replaced with a fundamentally different approach to science. Everything else, even the momentous discoveries, just resulted in the authorities and institutions at the reigns of science adapting their own views to match, rather than being replaced by another group.
I'd say the answer requires context. A, D or E could all be correct depending on whether the speaker's focus is on scientific revolutions (as opposed to social revolutions), social revolutions (as opposed to scientific revolutions) or if they aren't focusing on either.
Check out the poll exams that were used 150 years ago to keep niggers from voting. Questions like "place a circle above the third vowel in this sentence."
My city is racist by requiring shoes and a short to enter a store or a bar.
It keeps out roughly half of a certain demographic.
Stealthy Scandinavian is stealthy.
They don't call him sneak king for nothin'
There was nothing about the test, the court just said that because blacks/hispanics failed more often, the test must be racist. Courts in blue states are full of Marxist scum.
Classic Post hoc ergo proctor hoc.
I love the classical logical fallacies!
Disparate impact is a cancer on US law.
Heck, the Civil Rights Act in general tbh
I saw a supposed sample question that had four sets of numbers and asked which set the fraction 2/3 was not between. Elementary school math.
Answer: "But apples don't cost ¢50."
Here's some example questions I found:
Communication Skills: After reading the passage, choose, from among the five given, the best answer to the question.
"Social and scientific revolutions must be sharply distinguished. Social revolutions are restricted to a particular time and place; they last for a while and then pass into history. Scientific revolutions, on the other hand, belong to all places and all times."
(A) argue that advances made in science cannot be undone or forgotten
(B) identify several important aspects of scientific and social revolutions
(C) discuss the social consequences of scientific revolutions
(D) point out a fundamental difference between social revolutions and scientific revolutions
(E) suggest that the importance of social revolutions is frequently overestimated
Usage: The portion of the following sentence printed in bold presents a problem in the appropriate use of language. Choose from the following ways of rewriting the bold portion, the best--clearest, most exact--expression, without changing the meaning of the original:
"Conservationists want to preserve stretches of 'wild' rivers, those whose banks are still unobstructed by buildings and uncontaminated by wastes in their waters."
(A)uncontaminated by wastes in their waters
(B)whose waters are uncontaminated by wastes
(C)whose waters are without wastes contaminating them
(D)by wastes contaminating their waters
(E)wastes contaminating their waters
Mathematics: 2/3 is between the numbers given in each of the following pairs EXCEPT
(A) 0 and 1
(B) 1/2 and 3/4
(C) 2 and 3
(D) .6 and .7
(E) .5 and .8
Science: The finding of fossils of marine animals in the upper reaches of a mountain would indicate that the mountain was
(A) formed by volcanic action
(B) undergoing severe erosion
(C) undergoing very little erosion
(D) located in an area of extensive fauna
(E) formed by an uplift of the Earth's crust
Social Studies: During a recession in the United States, unemployment is likely to be highest among which of the following groups?
(A) public school teachers
(B) Army officers
(C) Office managers
(D) Automobile assembly workers
(E) Dairy farmers
I could make an argument for A, B, D and E. I was able to get the correct answer, but only by test taking experience and assuming that the test was likely written by a midwit.
On the other hand almost all uses of scientific "revolution" have little reason to be called that and would be better served by saying evolution or advancement.
About the only true revolution in western science was the divorcing of natural sciences from needing to agree with Catholic orthodoxy or ancient pedagogy during the Renaissance/enlightenment. That's the only time the once ultimate authority over science was usurped and replaced with a fundamentally different approach to science. Everything else, even the momentous discoveries, just resulted in the authorities and institutions at the reigns of science adapting their own views to match, rather than being replaced by another group.
I'd say the answer requires context. A, D or E could all be correct depending on whether the speaker's focus is on scientific revolutions (as opposed to social revolutions), social revolutions (as opposed to scientific revolutions) or if they aren't focusing on either.