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All hail the SAT snafu!

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For thousands of high school students, the recent news that there were scoring errors in thousands of this year's Scholastic Assessment Test scores is the stuff that nightmares are made of -- particularly in this nervous time of envelopes arriving with colleges' rejections and acceptances. And the number of students affected isn't minimal. The College Board now admits that about 4,600 students -- or almost 1 percent of the 495,000 who took the October 2005 test -- had received erroneous scores as a result of answer sheets expanded by moisture, as well as other problems. While not trying to minimize the anxiety and pain of these college aspirants, I must confess that for a social scientist such as myself, these scoring errors -- particularly ones from years past, which we must assume also exist in significant numbers -- are a dream come true because they afford an opportunity to finally subject the controversial test to an important experiment.

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