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By selecting for efficient test taking robots at the critical gateways to the graduate level education necessary to obtain these decision-making "leadership" roles.

A comparable phenomenon is at work in medical school admissions, with similar results that lead to the sort of appallingly callous group-preservation outcomes described in the original article and some of the comments here.

The entire system is irreversibly broken at the most fundamental levels, as this same class of decision makers are the ones who are consulted when developing the next round of gatekeeping tests and curricula.

Because it's cheaper than trying to design higher quality or more specific tests.

I agree with this. Moreso, the cost of firing/CPSing a false positive is likely negligible in the grand scale.

Look, if you can't quit poppy seeds for a single pee test, you're probably an addict. (parody)