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For want of a nail: Why unnecessarily long tests may be impeding the progress of Western civilisation
Author(s) -
Wainer Howard,
Feinberg Richard
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2015.00797.x
Subject(s) - civilization , test (biology) , point (geometry) , nail (fastener) , law , political science , engineering , mathematics , mechanical engineering , geology , paleontology , geometry
The longer the test, the more reliable it is – up to a point. Howard Wainer and Richard Feinberg expose the costs and hours lost in pursuit of marginal gains and worthless subscores