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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/24 17:17, David Lang via Bloat
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:73o87647-p702-r61r-5389-47n7oqp940r5@ynat.uz">so, what
happens when a standardized test is mandated and then it's found
that that test isn't as good as others?
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I'm leery of any government mandates.
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<p>Governments in general are good a "policing" things*, such as
deficiencies in specifications and persons trying to weasel around
them.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 (:-))<br>
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<p>Have you seen that in the US?<br>
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<p>--dave</p>
<p>[* See Jane Jacobs, <i>Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the
Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics</i>, Random House,
Inc., ISBN 0-394-55079-X, 1992] or
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival</a></p>
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David Lang
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Dave Taht via Bloat wrote:
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davecb@spamcop.net">davecb@spamcop.net</a> | -- Mark Twain</pre>
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