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Scored - chapter 12 and 13

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    the book
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  • What was the name of the town Imani grew up in?
    Somerton
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  • How long had Somerton been a score town?
    21 years
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  • Who were the creators of the score?
    Sherry Potter and Nathan Klein
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  • Who disappeared under suspicious circumstances?
    Sherry Potter
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  • What was Sherry Potter's view of the score just before she disappeared
    It was a flawed system
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  • Why did the Potter-Kleins create the score?
    because they believed a failure of technology lead to an increase of poverty
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  • What did they believe were value systems of the poor that reinforced lack poverty?
    high drop out rates, high birth rates, short term gratification (buying stuff they couldn't afford)
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  • what is one of the aspects of the score that makes people uncomfortable?
    when people talk to the eyeballs
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  • Where did they first test the scored system
    in a youth prison in Exborough
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  • What strange thing happened when they tested the system at Exborough?
    the kids started confessing to the cameras - they loved the cameras and loved being watched
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  • What does Nathan believe about privacy?
    It's a modern invention - there is no need for it and actually we need community - he calls it the fetishization of privacy
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  • How did Potter and Klein explain why the kids loved being judged by the cameras?
    they felt they were being judged by something rational and fair - something not human (frustrated teachers, abusive guards)
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  • What is the motto of Score Corp
    A more perfect humanity through technology
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  • What are the SATS in the US?
    standardized tests to get into college in America
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  • What did Potter-Klein argue was the problem with SATs
    it could easily be gamed - wealthy people have access to more resources so they can more easily get higher scores - rich could pretend their children were gifte
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  • How do Potter Klein justify the score being different than SATs?
    you can't game it, it gets smarter from feedback, it's smarter than people, it's not about what you do, but about who are you
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