Channel: Answer in Progress

Category: Education

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Description: Thank you Squarespace for sponsoring this video! If you're a student, sign up with your student email to receive 50% off. If not, use my link bit.ly/2AHwyr8 to get 10% off! The SAT is a standardized test widely used for admission to famous universities like Harvard and Yale, and more students are writing it than ever before. At the same time, education reform continues to gain popularity the effectiveness of standardized tests come into question. So, if we know that the SAT is broken, why does it still exist? In this episode of Nerdonomics, I dive into the problematic origin of the SAT, and figure out why colleges and universities still use the SAT. I also try to write the SAT... without studying. SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: goo.gl/BmXFVQ Why Do Horoscopes Still Exist? youtu.be/znNUdPshtEY More Videos Like This: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrGvezF6PokbaB7i7vM7NEY-1MwCcO0VK SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: twitter.com/nerdyandquirky Instagram: instagram.com/nerdyandquirky -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the joke under the fold! Here's one for the math fandom: I always prayed before my trigonometry tests. I was hoping for a sine from above. Leave a comment below with the word TEST to let me know you were here ;-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This part is not a joke. This video was sponsored by Squarespace.