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2026-05-14 17:28 UTC

@silhouette@dumbfuckingweb.site @danirabbit@mastodon.online Also be cognizant of how such evaluations may be used to filter out people or used to achieve an agenda. Computer science aptitude testing used to have test questions like "add together this long list of numbers in your head in 45 seconds". (Handy to filter out the poor, women, & immigrants). Even then, people used calculators to add up numbers. People can have a perfectly fine career in IT without being a mathematical mental acrobat. 1/

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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-05-14 17:30

2/ Firefighters used unfair upper body strength tests to keep women & POC out of emergency services for decades. Covert "Asians need not apply" policies. South Africa used to have citizenship testing that required Welsh. Or the "pencil test". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid https://theconversation.com/kinky-curly-hair-a-tool-of-resistance-across-the-african-diaspora-65692 Capitalism, imperialism, & Jim Crow used a variety of methods to justify & maintain a "self-perpetuating" social hierarchy. The industry of "Aptitude Testing" is one. https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/racist-beginnings-standardized-testing

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@KrissyKat@hoosier.social 2026-05-14 21:51

@Npars01@mstdn.social @silhouette@dumbfuckingweb.site @danirabbit@mastodon.online That makes my brain hurt just thinking about having to do something like that.

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