Reflecting on the exchange between academic papers and people who want to earnestly write software pieces about this: you have been failed too. You aren't assessment scientists or psychologists. You're reading things that are so tangled up in context and just getting little pieces and edges and slices of the picture. I mean I have spent many, many years as a PhD psychologist thinking about ability and achievement and working on this stuff. Software needs this expertise but won't value it
I don't blame people for repeating the things that they've been told via the credibility that's so baked into society, e.g. work from computer science faculty, from a university campus. It does enrage me that these fields have not cared to have a higher bar of rigor here -- but I don't blame the READERS of this work. Not to be dramatic but we are living in societies with soul-shattering heritages of violence against human potential trying to find a reasonable path through its devastation
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