WEINGARTEN: Take what Justin just
said about test scores.
If you don't understand what is being
said about test scores, ask questions.
Here's what Summers had to
say about the tests:
The journal Environmental Health published a research article that
says this about the testing of samples of HFCS: «The samples were found to contain levels of mercury ranging from below a detection limit of 0.005 to 0.570 micrograms mercury per gram of high fructose corn syrup.
What do the experts, national teacher organizations, and presidential candidates have to
say about these tests?
The originality of Lemann's argument lies less in what
he says about the tests themselves than in his account of the vision of an engineered society that the founders and supporters of ETS (James Bryant Conant, Henry Chauncy, and Clark Kerr, to name some of the best known) had in mind.
Craig Kemp (@mrkempnz) based in Singapore (which has a world - renowned education system, ranking 2nd on the PISA 2012 Reading, Math and Science tests)
says about testing that he has seen «the negative result of this pressure on students every day.»
I, for one, don't trust anything anybody
says about tests because politicians and the media will use results to spin in the direction that makes them look good, or to get what they want.
Perhaps more interesting, Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman has had this to
say about testing:
What does the high ACT juxtaposed with the admission of small understanding of basic history
say about this test?
Not exact matches
Rather than asking
about specific needs, make sure the group is entertained with anything from interactive demos where members of the group can
test or sample products,
says Proeber.
By 2020, Bhargava
says the company will be on the market — selling a shoebox - size lab for
about $ 1,000 and an annual subscription plan for the
testing pods.
WSJ writer John Carreyrou reportedly spoke to four former employees, none of whom are named in his story, including one who «accused the company of failing to report
test results that raised questions
about the precision» of their
tests, which could be «a violation of federal rules for laboratories,» the Journal article
said.
«What we're excited
about is the constant
testing on new ways to use Twitter and engage users,» he
says.
In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed
about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of
test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government
said in a statement.
While the funds suing Theranos in Delaware
say the blood -
testing startup talked to them
about the share offer in September 2016, according to Bloomberg, they then found that Theranos designed the offer so that investment funds would not obtain «any recovery» in a bankruptcy filing.
When CR asked NHTSA
about the status of the Sorento investigation, the agency
said that it «continues to analyze
test data and other information to determine if this issue is linked to a defect,» but gave no sense of when the investigation will be completed.
«While we'll be in the
testing stage, we're excited
about the potential benefits this kind of technology offers our fleet,» the spokesperson
said.
«You are so concerned
about passing this military - like
test that you actually start to lose your department's operational conditions,» an employee
said.
His worry is actually
about human
testing in the field, but, he
says, he's already talking to WHO
about how those studies would be done.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson
said at a press briefing on November 9 that the force expected to have a report on the experiment by the end of December, after which it would make decisions
about the program and potential battlefield
tests.
Fishman
says consistent touting of such promotions helped spread the word
about new flavors the company is informally
testing.
Gross
says focusing on video games was as much
about the science of tracking and collecting information
about patients» vision, as it is
about the psychology in having a
testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.
The Air Force has not disclosed many details
about the space craft other than to
say it's designed for «low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and
testing.»
In the same
test group, which included
about 8,000 respondents globally, only 47 percent of older generations
said tech has given them a better work - life balance and improved relationships.
When asked what did UPS learn
about the drone delivery system on Monday that it hopes to improve on for future
tests, Dodero
said the company wants «to make it work faster,» but he declined to elaborate.
Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a reproductive endocrinologist, has ordered more than 100 Fertilome
tests, although she
says she is careful
about using the
test with the small percentage of her patients who have severe anxiety disorders.
He muses
about it often, believes in it, sees its potential financially, and has been an active part in moving it along — some would
say too active, given the accelerated timetable
testing has been under.
Responding to questions
about Trump's views on immigration, Thiel
said he did not support a religious
test for Muslims as Trump has advocated for, and went on to
say he did not believe Trump supporters take literally the candidate's repeated calls to build a wall along the Mexican border and make the neighboring country pay for it.
«My concerns are that these platforms were built from the ground up by white men and
tested on their families and people in their orbit who looked like them, and they never thought
about how their platforms could do harm,» Sarkeesian
said.
«Startups are not just
about the idea, they're
about testing and implementing the idea,»
says serial - entrepreneur Steve Blank.
Sia spoke out
about the situation on Twitter,
saying, «Like M · A · C, I believe makeup shouldn't be
tested on animals.
So [the problem] wasn't obvious to us,» Cue
said about early Apple Maps
testing.
While the brand started out specializing in dress shoes, it rolled out a fantastic pair of boat shoes this summer — we took them for a
test drive and had really nice things to
say about them.
Effective customer interviews
test your guesses
about what your product should be and who's likely to buy it,
says Lean Startup pioneer Steve Blank.
Also known as loganWHD on the web, Hadnagy
says in order to
test companies» system frailties, he phished around 275,000 people last year and
about 1.6 million are on deck this year.
While Relativity had paid
about $ 1 million to use the
test stand, the company won an «Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity» contract, which gives Relativity $ 1.5 million from NASA to keep using the E-3 stand, Ellis
said.
«What I appreciate is that the company improved areas where it may not have been the best or where they received customer feedback,» Patrick Moorhead, president of Moor Insights,
said after he was allowed to
test the new chips for
about a week.
Paraskevakos
says Harmonium
tested about 90 other strains before settling on that one.
While some businesses were talking
about cutting employee hours because of the ACA, this client decided to
test flipping its workforce from 30 percent full - time and 70 percent part - time employees to 70 percent full - time and 30 percent part - time, she
says.
«Expressive writing — writing
about your deepest thoughts and feelings — has been
tested extensively,» PsyBlog
says, noting that a regular writing ritual has been shown to have both health and psychological benefits, including helping to quell repetitive worries.
It's counter-intuitive, but Grant
says a study involving a math
test has confirmed the finding: «When the defensive pessimists distracted themselves with another task right before the math
test, their scores were
about 25 percent lower than when they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the
test, and how they might feel.
«The potential, broadly, for A / B
testing is
about 1 percent realized in terms of sites and companies that have deployed these tactics,»
says Fenton, whose previous investments include Twitter and Yelp.
«A stress
test that claims that if the Dow falls by 60 %, the unemployment rate rises to 12 %, housing prices decline substantially more than they did during the 2008 recession, GDP declines by 6 - 7 % — and that all of that can happen and no bank will be in serious financial trouble or have any problem of being undercapitalized or illiquid — I kind of think
says more
about itself than it
says about the health of the banking system.»
«The interest rates you could charge someone are so low that you can
test the waters on whether they would pay you back by talking
about a repayment plan,»
says Gamel.
Asked at the conference
about Netflix's
tests with new pricing plans, Wells
said the company was looking to offer different choices because as the customer base grows larger «one size does not fit all.»
Facebook began working on the latest iteration
about six months ago, and it will start
testing it in a few months, the person
said.
Other companies facing similar questions
about whether they can make good on early investor expectations — and lofty private - market valuations — include online storage service Dropbox Inc., note - taking company Evernote Corp., music - streaming service Deezer SA and blood -
testing company Theranos Inc.,
said Anand Sanwal, chief executive officer of CB Insights, a firm that tracks startup investing.
The plus - sized drink has been in
testing for
about a year, she
said.
But after everything they've been through, Stoneman Douglas students
say waiving the
testing requirement would give them one less thing to worry
about.