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“A commander does not need to know the barometric pressure or the winds or even the temperature. He needs to know the forecast. If you get too caught up in the production of information, you drown in the data.”
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Barbara Adde
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“…to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of ‘smart’?”
— Sep 13, 2026 01:16PM
Barbara Adde
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“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 …
— Sep 13, 2026 01:15PM