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I wonder what the election map would look like if only the top 10% of SAT testers voted.

Anonymous 1d

We all know what it would look like lol

Anonymous 1d

Part of this depends heavily on if we are going nationally or if it’s the top 10% in every state. Because if it’s the top 10% nationally, a handful of people in some states (smaller ones with low scoring) are going to decide the whole election for the state

Anonymous 1d

This is quite literally what racist supported before the civil rights act.

Anonymous

#2 1d

We also need to consider how many high scorers, who are disproportionately from highly educated immigrant families, would even be US citizens. And I guess based on that question is the 10% cutoff like by year? Because scores fluctuate by year (dipped in the 60s) and the attendance changes by year (more takers in recent decades). So the voting population may be disproportionately younger

Anonymous

#2 1d

But generally, your answer is going to be like affluent suburban Massachusetts or northern Virginia. Socially liberal, but likely with a strong fiscal conservative bent due to the disproportionate wealth of this population. And massively disproportionate Asian political representation, with marginalization of most other non-white ethnicities due to educational inequality. It wouldn’t be a good system. The politics would prioritize the suburbs and neglect everyone else.