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The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by mistrial9 »

asu_thomas wrote: post #28
mistrial9 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.. the person responding merged the thoughts ("the company spokesperson said A" + "screenshots show company doing B" ) + (the reason the company did that is $SYSTEM + the reason the spokesporson said that is $SYSTEM) this is actually a known problem in cognitive psych; the person writing did not sufficiently break up the parts. An incomplete thought chain or lazy thinking results in this kind of merged result all the…

Nobody ascribed a cause to anything. My only point is that it's reality, not imagination. People just making shit up is also a known problem in cognitive psychology. Very interesting stuff.

>> It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality.

> Nobody ascribed a cause to anything.

.... those two statements contradict directly... followed by scatology..

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by nerdponx »

chaps wrote: post #37
excalibur wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Article is clickbait/ragebait. They're not sending your scores. If you do a search for colleges who accept scores in a certain range, your search parameters are tracked, just like any other search parameters.

Why would they even send search parameter info to Facebook, tiktok, etc? Genuinely don't see how that makes it any better. It's arguably worse.

You send us your data, we give you better ad campaigns as well as better metrics/insights about performance.

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by karaterobot »

asu_thomas wrote: post #11
Atreiden wrote: post #7

> “We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,” said a College Board spokesperson. “In fact, we do not send any personally identifiable information (PII) through our pixels on the site. In addition, we do not use SAT scores or GPAs for any targeting.” > After receiving this comment, Gizmodo shared a screenshot of the College Board sending GPAs and SA…

> It would be comical if it weren't so dystopian Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary?

Definitely. I want to live in one of those non-capitalist countries, where they don't track people. The names of these countries escape me at the moment.

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by lolinder »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #41
Atreiden wrote: post #7

> “We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,” said a College Board spokesperson. “In fact, we do not send any personally identifiable information (PII) through our pixels on the site. In addition, we do not use SAT scores or GPAs for any targeting.” > After receiving this comment, Gizmodo shared a screenshot of the College Board sending GPAs and SA…

Yeah and then still claim that it can't be traced to the person, where the whole point of the pixel is to lead it back to their fb profile. The spokesperson is either being fed false information or blatantly lying. At least someone in the organization is.

This is overly harsh. The spokesperson assumed they were being accused of abusing their position of running the SAT by actually sending real SAT scores directly to Facebook, so they responded accordingly.

Instead they were abusing their position of trust to get students to enter the scores again themselves and sending that. Still not great, but not a lie on the spokesperson's part, just a misunderstanding of what was meant.

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by Sirizarry »

asu_thomas wrote: post #28
mistrial9 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.. the person responding merged the thoughts ("the company spokesperson said A" + "screenshots show company doing B" ) + (the reason the company did that is $SYSTEM + the reason the spokesporson said that is $SYSTEM) this is actually a known problem in cognitive psych; the person writing did not sufficiently break up the parts. An incomplete thought chain or lazy thinking results in this kind of merged result all the…

Nobody ascribed a cause to anything. My only point is that it's reality, not imagination. People just making shit up is also a known problem in cognitive psychology. Very interesting stuff.

I think you’re really misunderstanding the context in which the word dystopian is used here. It’s just a negative adjective. No one is saying this is imagination.

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

lolinder wrote: post #54
wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah and then still claim that it can't be traced to the person, where the whole point of the pixel is to lead it back to their fb profile. The spokesperson is either being fed false information or blatantly lying. At least someone in the organization is.

This is overly harsh. The spokesperson assumed they were being accused of abusing their position of running the SAT by actually sending real SAT scores directly to Facebook, so they responded accordingly. Instead they were abusing their position of trust to get students to enter the scores again themselves and sending that . Still not great, but not a lie on the spokesperson's part, just a misunderstanding of what wa…

it's kind of like a developer saying: "not on my browser"

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by hgsgm »

Imagine if you had a private meeting with your school guidance counselor, and then the school sent a copy of your questions to Facebook and TikTok along with your ID # in those systems.

College Board is yet another parasite that sunk its teeth into the US government-educational complex to suck our blood.

https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/

One of the benefits of "test optional" colleges is that now they colleges can filter for students with enough guts to refuse to do business with these crooks.

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by macNchz »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #41
Atreiden wrote: post #7

> “We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,” said a College Board spokesperson. “In fact, we do not send any personally identifiable information (PII) through our pixels on the site. In addition, we do not use SAT scores or GPAs for any targeting.” > After receiving this comment, Gizmodo shared a screenshot of the College Board sending GPAs and SA…

Yeah and then still claim that it can't be traced to the person, where the whole point of the pixel is to lead it back to their fb profile. The spokesperson is either being fed false information or blatantly lying. At least someone in the organization is.

Yeah, often companies will make that kind of claim based on the fact they only pass around sha256 hashes of email addresses, which are trivially deanonymized.

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/09/four-cents-to-deano...

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by echelon »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #41
Atreiden wrote: post #7

> “We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,” said a College Board spokesperson. “In fact, we do not send any personally identifiable information (PII) through our pixels on the site. In addition, we do not use SAT scores or GPAs for any targeting.” > After receiving this comment, Gizmodo shared a screenshot of the College Board sending GPAs and SA…

Yeah and then still claim that it can't be traced to the person, where the whole point of the pixel is to lead it back to their fb profile. The spokesperson is either being fed false information or blatantly lying. At least someone in the organization is.

Now imagine this being used by employers to weed out candidates.

Or advertisers, to target the "least intelligent" with their campaigns. (Which I'm sure they already do by proxy.)

Re: The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

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Post by hgsgm »

gaulish wrote: post #14
asu_thomas wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It would be comical if it weren't so dystopian Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary?

What makes a spokesperson lying “capitalism?” One can think of lying spokespersons like good ol’ Baghdad Bob operating outside of a business context.

The College Board is a financial scam (https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/) but arguably its flaws aren't technically Capitalist. Facebook and TikTok are, though. There's no reason for a school test-taking website to partner with Facebook and TikTok accept because these companies are providing some service (of dubious value, like College Board itself!) to drive their own profit. https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/
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