It's because GPA is a poor indicator of somebody's actual degree of education. A 4.0 GPA from a high-end private school is not the same thing as a 4.0 from a poorly funded inner-city school. Homeschooling programs are usually more rigorous and prepare students better in the early years, but due to the expenses involved in high-school curriculum they often wind up not matching up to even shittier public schools. Even those have high variance in performance as they rely on the parents entirely or primarily.
The idea of the standardized test is that every person takes the same test and the college has a more objective standard to look at. In reality, the way the tests are formatted leads to biases that favor/disfavor people based some factors, but it is a better standard than just a high school GPA.
I'd suggest that anybody who is outraged over this should write an email or call in Fox. Does Greg Guttfeld still take drunk calls on The Five like he used to on Red Eye? If so spamming that line would be a good way to make it clear the public does not support firing people for exercising free speech.
Oh I get it. Like I said, I was annoyed and disappointed by his attitudes. I just think we should show compassion to somebody who may not have been in his right mind and who was definitely wrestling with the worst part of his life.
Considering that most offenders in the UK atm are part of the Muslim community I would imagine BLM was trying to attack the rally as racist. That seems to be the common response to the "Asian" rape gangs from the UK's leftists.
He annoyed me too, but please keep in mind the cancer and cancer treatment fucks with your mind a lot. He knew he was going to die soon, he was likely in a great deal of pain from both the cancer and cancer treatment and he was probably on some serious pain meds.
Shoot, the video after his death where Genna mentioned he would sleep with an Ultramarine figure (he was not a fan of the Ultra Smurfs) just so when he woke up he would know he was actually awake should give you an idea of his state of mind.
John Bain was one of the best when it came to PC Game reviews, and even a couple of years after his death nobody else is doing it as well as he did.
People are going to post where they're most comfortable, and there are still reasons to be on Reddit. I lurk in various writing forums like /r/hfy for instance.
It's going to take Reddit banning KIA and/or KIA2 before you'll get a large migration. At least people are actually posting on here.
Not really though. The issue with transexuals in sports is that the vast majority of males have significant physical advantages over the vast majority of females. Sure it's possible that different drug usage could even that out, but they're basically two different ways of creating unfair/unnatural competition.
Oh, in that case yes I would argue that parents shouldn't be letting young kids play those either. I had my own phase where I spent way to much cash on Magic and there is definitely an addictive quality to pack opening.
Problem with videos games (particularly mobile games) are the degree to which they've been tailored to target people with a propensity to addictive behaviors. Games that dynamically scale up failure rates to encourage purchases, mining user data to estimate your income level and how much you're likely to spend (or allow to be spent), hiring psychologists to help guide decisions to encourage addiction and skinning this all around a game tailored to 7 year old is a bit much imo.
I'm all for letting adults make these decisions on their own. But we don't let companies that sell alcohol, nicotine products or pot advertise to and target kids. I'm ok with our gambling laws being applied to games as well, seeing as many of these mechanics are already operating in legal grey areas.
I don't really think they believe they have a chance of getting things done. The idea you can draft a candidate is a bit naive and the idea they floated of essentially sharing a presidency requires a level of trust that two different people aren't going to have at day one.
The main problem with their plan is imaging you could fix the problems in the US in such a short amount of time. You can't. Changing the political climate is going to require the current political leaders to age-out (or more realistically, pass away) and likely for the next generation to as well as we are not electing younger people who put the interests of the country ahead of their own interests either.
While it's cliche, reform starts at the local level and is going to require a voting basis that pays attention to our politicians. You can't pick one person as "your guy", you have to make sure that individual earns your vote each and every election and you have to ruthlessly oust a politician as soon as they demonstrate they've been compromised.
I just don't see that happening in the current political climate.
Media or the new social media websites? There have been a bunch of new sites springing up, most of them touting free speech as an initial principle. Most of the ones I've seen so far aren't offering anything new to their user base or an incentive to migrate over.
Well they are better than GPA scores, in the US at least. Standardized tests aren't necessarily great though.
There is mounting evidence that our Federal policies since the start of No Child Left Behind have increased cheating on the part of the teachers and administrators running those tests, as their jobs are now tied to the tests.
You should also consider the mechanics of the test. Multiple choice tests are exploitable by certain tactics and an understanding of game theory, something I was explicitly taught in NY public schools years ago. Certain subjects are also difficult to test en masse, so these tests tend to emphasize specific subjects.