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Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Just look at what the Republicans did with "Dynamic Scoring" for the Congressional Budget Office. If they can't get out of a test, they'll re-write the rules for how it's graded.

Besides, Republicans have the infrastructure in place to sing from the rooftops if they were to do better than Democrats, and to decry the whole thing as a partisan ivory tower circlejerk if (when) they do worse. I can even see a scenario where doing poorly on such a test is regarded as a source of pride, and people refuse to vote for someone who has scored too highly.

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Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Jestah posted:

No matter how hard they curb the test we'd still have the contrast between scores to out the dumb rear end.
Even if we out the dumbasses, you're assuming that the electorate won't prefer them for being dumbasses. Anti-intellectualism is rampant in the U.S. already; this would just give a metric to score how anti-intellectual the candidates can be.

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