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Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:50:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
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> Again, I think this is just a way to get around the recent court rulings
> about affirmative action, that is targeted to Hispanics and African
> Americans. Which is both racist, and demeaning to minorities. They
> should be encouraged to do well in school, and study for the tests, and
> try to aim for the top, rather than going around the issues, and using
> tests like this, with other people, to try to get them in. I hope the
> court rules these out as well.
Once again, Limbaugh shows his vast ignorance.
These kinds of tests are routinely used by management consulting
firms to test employees to see how well they fit into an
organization.
I've seen them given using LEGO and K'NEX. Usually a model or
a diagram is shown to a group of 4-6 people. They are then given
a pile of parts and told to go to work.
It quickly becomes evident who has the leadership skills, who
can puzzle out the difficult details and subtle mechanisms,
who can spot repetitive patterns and organize the group such
that those patterns are created most effeciently, and, after the
model is ready for test, who is best at troubleshooting it.
It's an interesting and worthwhile approach and a good antidote
to that SAT crap (which, btw, I did pretty well on).
Of course, college isn't much like work and vice versa anyway....
as evah,
John C.
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| (...) Or you are showing yours, but I digress... (...) Yes, but what does that have to do with admitting minorities into a college? Business and college are very different. (...) Yes, see above.. (...) Yes, work again... (...) My point exactly. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Kevin, (...) That's what the article said, which I mentioned in the quote earlier. (...) Mine was probably CAD and drafting classes, along with history. Again, I think this is just a way to get around the recent court rulings about affirmative (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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