Sentence examples for based on arbitrary tests from inspiring English sources

Gramsci saw that differentiated forms of education based on arbitrary tests of rote-learned knowledge was an essential tool in the establishment of the ideological hegemony of rulers in a class-based society.

(When the South African government instituted apartheid, it divided the population into four racial groups, often splitting up families based on arbitrary tests. One way the government decided who was black was by sticking a pencil in residents' hair. If it stuck, you were declared black).

The distinction between a case and a postposition is often based on arbitrary and superficial criteria.

Based on arbitrary definitions, 37% to 66% of patients were at low risk and responsible for 31% to 56% of the charges for cardiovascular testing.

Safety net institutions will receive federal funding based on need (number of uninsured) and not based on arbitrary formulas.

Teaching unions have branded the banding system a "failure" based on "arbitrary and misleading" figures.

Teaching unions claim the school banding system is a "failure" based on "arbitrary and misleading" figures.

The other is that small sample sizes based on arbitrary time frames are nearly always nonrepresentative".

Any conservation story based on arbitrary or unsupported science hurts the larger conservation agenda.

For Tom the third reason is based on arbitrary societal norms.

Such information inequalities describe general interrelations between parametric measures based on arbitrary information functions.