There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the …

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There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects. ✨ Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.
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