Innovation attitudes, not just aptitudes, matter.
She notes this "societal noise" plays a role in reinforcing our assumptions about data: for example, we may view a standardised test score as a fair measure of aptitude, but we rarely ask how those scores function in communities where schools are racially and economically segregated.
Teaching doesn't just demand an aptitude for teaching; or, put it another way, an aptitude for teaching is made up of many subsidiary aptitudes.
Just have an aptitude for unconventional thinking.
During the Bush years, Summers went back to school, where he enraged women at Harvard by suggesting that the fairer sex were different in aptitude than men in the science and engineering fields.
As she has put it: "I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about what my aptitude is and I really think it's to explore and push the medium.
The second is whether The Seinfeld Aptitude Test (also referred to as The SAT) constitutes fair use of the Seinfeld television series.
The fair draws students from around the world who have demonstrated an aptitude for scientific research.
Meanwhile, we will be consulting on the introduction of an aptitude test for the Bar Professional Training Course, with the aim to ensure a fair and equitable process for all applicants, while preventing those without the necessary skills spending up to £16,000 undertaking the course".
Ucles said the test will identify applicants with the aptitude, skills and capacity to successfully apply their knowledge in undergraduate courses, and provide "fair assessments of applicants from a wide range of educational and social backgrounds by addressing generic academic skills and the capacity to apply basic science knowledge, which may be less susceptible to coaching than examinations".
They include "(a) Batteries: DAT, GATB, T2, ASDIC, Intelligence Structure Test (IST-70), Wilde Intelligence Test (WIT), GVK, PMA, and Aptitudes Mentales Primarias (AMPE); (b) g tests: Raven's Progressive Matrices, Cattell's Culture Fair Tests, Otis Employment Test, Alpha Test, Logique Intelligence, CERP, Domino, D-48, NIIP-33" (Salgado et al., 2003, p. 1070).
