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Originally Posted by Funkenstein  they never mentioned that the city saw severe racial disparity from test results which caused them to have a 5-day civil review board in the first place. |
There's severe racial disparity in nearly every bar and physicians board exam that's administered as well. Are those racially flawed? There are a lot more variables to take into account to explain why different tests that were administered in different municipalities yielded more racially parity than these. You can't just say the test was flawed. Especially given that the test maker routinely screens the tests for these kinds of anomalies specifically because a large number of it's customers are municipalities. As well as the fact all the takers were given the same study material. That simple fact alone makes it hard to dispute any sort of flaw in the test itself.
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Originally Posted by Funkenstein I think the biggest mistake the city made was throwing the test out altogether |
They sort of had to, which is why chief justice Robert's agreed with Ginsberg's statement of them being damned if they do damned if they don't. I don't know if it was covered in the thread you're referencing, but there's a four-fifths rule that states if the pass rate of a minority is less than 80% than that of white test takers the test is flawed.