[on the Standard Aptitude Test as a college admission predictor] The essential mechanism of the SAT - the multiple-choice test question - is a bizarre relic of long-outdated 20th century social- scientific assumptions and strategies. As every adult recognizes, knowing something or knowing how to do something in real life is never defined by being able to choose a 'right' answer, from a set of possible options put forward by faceless test engineers. No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist or physician pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set or prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.
