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ShardPhoenix comments on Open thread, 14-20 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 20 July 2014 08:02:50AM *  3 points [-]

Title and excerpt aside, this isn't really a retraction of the actual test, just of the author's overly-aggressive interpretation thereof. Basically he says that the test does have some predictive power but not enough to prove anything about who can or can't pass a programming class.