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21 Jul 2013 07:35 #113497 by Br. John
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22 Jul 2013 00:55 #113546 by
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Something tells me the person who wrote the test couldn't prove a fifth grade education...

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22 Jul 2013 01:00 #113547 by Br. John
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This was used to keep people from voting.
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22 Jul 2013 01:03 #113548 by Brenna
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Br. John wrote: This was used to keep people from voting.



Unbelievable! I had to read it through several times just to make sure that I wasnt just misunderstanding it!!


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22 Jul 2013 01:13 #113551 by
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Do you have any actual proof of that?

Br. John wrote: This was used to keep people from voting.


And not some John or Mary's website, but an actual news source that reported this, additionally where did the reporter of this information get their information from?

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22 Jul 2013 01:26 #113554 by Br. John
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html

http://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-gave-black-voters-1960s/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/could-you-pass-the-literacy-test-given-to-black-voters-in-th

http://www.crmvet.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test
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22 Jul 2013 01:48 - 22 Jul 2013 01:55 #113557 by RyuJin
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Was it me or were some of those questions not possible to solve...how does one draw a line around anything?...how many first letters does the alphabet have...last I looked only one....some of the questions are easy to solve, provided you see the trickery...the rest though...very dirty pool, the military used similar word tricks when doing interrogation training, trying to trip people up with shifty wordplay.....

Now that I think about it, I could really scramble the test writers melon if I were to utilise some 3d perspective drawings....then you can have a vertical line bisected by a curved horizontal line that is straight at the point of bisection...from one perspective it would be straight but from another it would be curved....of course that's probably not what the test writer had in mind...
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22 Jul 2013 01:59 #113558 by
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i'm pretty sure they are all solvable but they are very tricky. it took me a while to figure out how to do some of the questions and had to read them out loud to understand

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22 Jul 2013 03:01 #113560 by Adder
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Wow, that would be quite a feat of concentration to sit through that in one stint :S

I gave up at q15 and skimmed the rest. I think they could have achieved the same thing with less then 10 questions!!
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22 Jul 2013 03:40 #113563 by
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They probably only gave it to people they didn't want to pass. ;)

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