Barbara Adde’s Reviews > Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking > Status Update

“…to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of ‘smart’?”

“As a society, we place enormous faith in tests because we think that they are a reliable indicator of the test taker’s ability and knowledge. But are they really? If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score then a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student or is it because …