so, what happens when a standardized test is mandated and then it's found that that test isn't as good as others?

I'm leery of any government mandates.

Governments in general are good a "policing" things*, such as deficiencies in specifications and persons trying to weasel around them.

At the same time, good specifiers write in "or better" clauses so that subsequent standards can be a few lines added to the original work.

We can tell that is broken in Canada when the CRTC does a request for comments ... but then rejects all the comments and proposed amendments. Oh, and resists publishing them (:-))

Have you seen that in the US?

--dave

[* See Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, Random House, Inc., ISBN 0-394-55079-X, 1992]  or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival

David Lang

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Dave Taht via Bloat wrote:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-407816A1.pdf

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