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npub14k23hl0c7a0ecs42wndgxg4l7w9ve03jtdlg48hvj93zdtq2cf9q3ted68 (npub14k2…ed68) npub1nn4trthmwj5fdfhxjzf6xyz3eka2qn5jfa9nds2ch5cu0app7kas5tz7nh (npub1nn4…z7nh) Psychometricians serve test makers though, the problem may be the uninterpretability of result by anyone other than a specialist in "black box" proprietary measures created for the sole benefit of (and this much the article gets right) administrators and politicians. None of this testing informa instruction, it's inscrutable by design because the secret secret is that you cannot measure knowledge by normalized quantitative metrics. When we change accessibilty parameters like font size, time limits, audio directions, etc. test scores change significantly which proves we arent testing skill or knowledge we're testing...
testing itself. Any test item that doesnt generate a bell curve is discarded for one with greater/lesser ambiguity/misinterpretability. Standardized testing is high revenue systematic fraud. What the hell is a "psychometrician?" Yeah, what indeed.

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