After reading, “SATs Help Colleges Make Smarter Admissions Call” by Gaston Caperton. I found the article to be biased in favor of the SATs. Considering the author is the president of College Board, which owns and develops the SAT, his writing obviously contains bias, and maybe the reason why the article had a one-sided perspective, that offered little to any factual evidence to strengthen his claim. If I had to rate the author’s bias out of 10, I would give him a 2/10, because of his credentials.
Most of Caperton’s premises are clear and overall support his claim. His evidence is mostly reasonable, for instance when he used this statistic “In 1987, 27 percent of SAT takers reported high school GPAs of A plus, A, or A minus; by 2007, this figure had grown to 43 percent.” This evidence not only supports his claim, but it also addresses alternate viewpoints which adds to the strength of the argument. An example of bad evidence is found when the author tries to refute an argument made by the opposing side, “Some argue that the SAT is unfair to minority students, but the research clearly shows that the SAT is not biased against any ethnic or racial group.” The author makes a vague claim citing “the research shows” he doesn’t include the institution or college’s …show more content…
He quickly changed the subject, and promoted his company College board by stating, “The College Board takes its mission very seriously: to connect students to college success, with a commitment to excellence and equity.” This is a prime example of red herring; distracting the reader away from the argument at hand. I would rate the author’s logic a
Most of Caperton’s premises are clear and overall support his claim. His evidence is mostly reasonable, for instance when he used this statistic “In 1987, 27 percent of SAT takers reported high school GPAs of A plus, A, or A minus; by 2007, this figure had grown to 43 percent.” This evidence not only supports his claim, but it also addresses alternate viewpoints which adds to the strength of the argument. An example of bad evidence is found when the author tries to refute an argument made by the opposing side, “Some argue that the SAT is unfair to minority students, but the research clearly shows that the SAT is not biased against any ethnic or racial group.” The author makes a vague claim citing “the research shows” he doesn’t include the institution or college’s …show more content…
He quickly changed the subject, and promoted his company College board by stating, “The College Board takes its mission very seriously: to connect students to college success, with a commitment to excellence and equity.” This is a prime example of red herring; distracting the reader away from the argument at hand. I would rate the author’s logic a