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General IQ
tests
measure such dimensions of intelligence as verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning, but IQ scores predict only about 10-20% of variation in life success.
The US will seek to guarantee the reliability of its nuclear weapons by spending billions of dollars to improve its nuclear weapons infrastructure and conduct
tests
not involving nuclear detonations.
North Korea’s nuclear
tests
and rocket launch have made the world a more dangerous place.
Touring the Mwandama Village, I saw the potential of modern technologies – smart phones and mobile broadband, improved seed varieties, the latest in drip irrigation, modern diagnostic
tests
for malaria, and low-cost solar-energy grids – to advance human well-being in ways that simply were not feasible even a few years ago.
Over the last decade,
tests
and exams for immigrants have proliferated – but so have controversies about what they may legitimately ask.
Citizenship
tests
are an integral part of this program; and, in the eyes of critics, they resemble “loyalty oaths” and other intolerant measures traditionally associated with the anti-communist witch-hunts of McCarthyism in 1950’s America.
Tests
should communicate lessons about rights and democracy, that is, politics – not about lifestyles or the supposed core content of a “national culture” (on which established members of a host country themselves would probably be hard pressed to reach consensus).
So, citizenship
tests
– rather than being repressive – can actually be empowering, if they make immigrants aware of rights and possibilities for participation.
Tests
might also make the passage to citizenship meaningful, a ritual similar to the solemn swearing of an oath of allegiance, which can be integrated as a major event into the story of one’s life (to be sure, some will always dismiss such ceremonies as political kitsch).
Czarist rule withstood many harsh
tests
during its long history: peasant revolts, conspiracies, and the alienation of the educated class.
Only a handful of countries have developed nuclear weapons outside of the NPT, and the CTBT has reduced the number of nuclear
tests
from an average of 500 per decade to a mere trickle.
Given the existence of a technologically advanced verification regime that can detect even small underground nuclear
tests
– what US Secretary of State John Kerry recently called “one of the great accomplishments of the modern world” – this is especially disappointing.
Similar problems have arisen over admissions
tests
to study law and medicine, as well as exams for clerical positions.
For example,
tests
administered by the OECD in 2003 found that Brazilian students ranked last in mathematics among 40 countries.
In the same tests, Mexico was in 37th place, while Uruguay, the highest-ranked Latin American country, came in 35th.
Latin American students performed especially poorly on the “problem solving” part of these
tests.
Interestingly, many countries that performed better than Chile on these standardized
tests
have a lower income per capita.
Arab students, for example, score well below average on international mathematics and science
tests.
There is an urgent need to expedite the resolution of the banking crisis, for which credible and comprehensive stress
tests
are an indispensable first step.
By subjecting trade relations to embargoes, sanctions, and
tests
of democracy, environmental standards, and human rights, the League is likely to retard the growth of trade, and thus the chance for poor non-democracies to catch up.
But now, with the Japanese experiencing a period of domestic political uncertainty, and North Korea’s nuclear
tests
and missile launches increasing their anxiety, will Japan reverse its long-standing decision not to seek a national nuclear-deterrent capability?
But Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s much-ridiculed bank “stress tests” made sense (although one can argue that sufficiently dire scenarios were not included or that too much was negotiated with the banks, etc.).
Striking research by the Stanford History Education Group, based on
tests
of thousands of students across the US, described as “bleak” their findings about young people’s ability to evaluate information they encounter online.
While a number of new initiatives – such as the News Literacy Project’s Checkology training courses, and Factitious, an online game that
tests
users’ ability to identify fake news – are trying to bolster the public’s filtering capacity, the impact has so far been limited.
Led by these four powers, Europe will face two strategic
tests.
Confronted with the new
tests
and challenges that are bound to stem from that reproach – challenges that independence alone will not suffice to surmount – the Kurdish people must recognize that they are likely to find themselves as alone as they have ever been in their long history.
Over the last five years, it has confronted a seemingly endless series of tests, including a eurozone-wide financial crisis, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, renewed fears of a Greek default, and the prospect of a British exit.
North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.
China has agreed to Security Council resolutions against Iran on several occasions, but it has backed sanctions against North Korea on only two, both coming after the North conducted nuclear
tests
(in 2006 and 2009).
Last year's brazenly chauvinistic resumption of nuclear
tests
in the Pacific in the face of international opposition was certainly vintage Gaullism.
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