People who are critics of these tests will say that the performance on the SET is highly correlated with your income.

But what they don't say is that nearly everything that's being used and could conceivably be used in admissions is correlated with income.

We're not going to say we're not going to test for those things if they're correlated.

We're going to say we want to solve those things. We want to eliminate those problems.

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. I'm Corey

Bratford. And I'm Rikish Lot. Well, Corey, what's happening? Well, coming up on our show today,

standardized testing may be getting less standard

we'll discuss what makes that issue so important to our education system journalists are coming

under attack in ukraine the most chilling front on russia's assault on the truth and a majority

of americans agree the supreme court needs reform we'll talk about what changes are really on the

table but first things first,

it's been two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

As you're speaking and as we're both sitting here, the World Health Organization has just

declared that this is a pandemic. All right, we have breaking news now. Let's get to it. It has to do

with COVID-19. And the World Health Organization has just declared

it is a pandemic at this point.

This just into our newsroom,

the World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus,

a pandemic with 118,000 cases

across 114 countries and 4,200 deaths worldwide.

Two years, two whole years of our lives being completely upended by a virus invisible to the human eyes.

So let's start with this. When we look back at the last two years of this craziness with COVID-19,

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