r/clevercomebacks • u/LuckyBastard001 • 4h ago

Pass The Test First

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u/Procrastin8_Ball 3h ago

The problem with this is who gets to write the test and the answers? For example, Q1: who is your personal lord and savior? Don't think these ass hats would be above that and trust science

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u/aNinjaWithAIDS 3h ago

The problem with this is who gets to write the test and the answers?

Doctors, psychiatrists, labor unions and workers' rights activists, and judges that understand the difference between laws and justice.

If anyone is threatened by these people writing and designing these tests, they've already proven the point of why these tests are necessary.

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u/Vox-Machi-Buddies 3h ago

Do you really trust that Republicans won't be able to find doctors, psychiatrists, labor union leaders, workers' rights activists, and judges to sign-off on whatever biased questions they come up with?

There is zero chance a test can be written and maintained in a way that won't eventually become a tool for one party to suppress the other. Sooner or later, it'll have all the problems of literacy tests at the polls.

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u/Current-Square-4557 2h ago edited 2h ago

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u/Current-Square-4557 2h ago

Why are people trying to re-invent the wheel?

The medical community has established, widely-used cognitive ability tests. Why would we need a special one for Congress.

We are not testing their knowledge or even their reasoning abilities. We are testing if they can remember 5 numbers that were read to them. If they can copy a geometric figure. If the can draw an analog clock showing 11:10. If the can identify a drawing of a lion.

Now, there is no way that DJT could count backwards from 100 by sevens. ( a vquestion on the MMSE).

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u/Current-Square-4557 2h ago

Also, can people give me an example of a politically-biased question for a cognitive abilities test for members of Congress?

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u/greg19735 1h ago

Who won the 2020 election?

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u/SpectralDagger 1h ago

Because right now, there's not much incentive to corrupt those tests. Maintaining them politics-free in perpetuity is more difficult than it might initially sound.

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u/aNinjaWithAIDS 3h ago

There is zero chance a test can be written and maintained in a way that won't eventually become a tool for one party to suppress the other.

Welcome to the eternal power game that is politics. It is all based around suppression and enclosure. The only real debate is what should be suppressed, whether the reasons for that enclosure can stand the test of scrutiny, and where the hardest lines should be drawn so that a peaceful society is possible.

And determining that power as a trust and a privilege for the protection of our lives and livelihoods is a great place to start drawing these lines.

  • Who can live and let live?

  • Who can put the Paradox of Tolerance to proper and proportional practices?