<p>No one called you obnoxious originally. The obnoxious remark was about superscoring. I’m not sure why you took it so personally, but you did. I understand and respect the fact that you’re playing the game along with so many others. It’s just the game itself that I find so annoying. I do apologize for the insinuation that you are living off the income of your parents. I just assumed an 17-18 would be. My mistake.</p>
<p>This agnosticbimbo fellow is quite comical, to be honest. </p>
<p>Anyways, he is correct that the French revolution had no influence on the U.S. founders. Even if they did occur at the same time, they were (primarily) influenced by different political philosophers of the Enlightenment. While both part of the historic social contract tradition, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (the primary influence behind the French Revolution - though his ideas were perverted by revolutionaries such as Robespierre) espoused socialist-esque ideas and John Locke (the primary influence of the political system that arose from the American Revolution - coupled with influences from Montesquieu, Putendorf, and Grotius (or so I would argue)) propounded classical liberal views.</p>
<p>As well (going back to the original point of this thread), it would be intriguing to see if, within two groups of students - one who achieved a single-sitting score of some SAT score and a second who achieved a super-scored score of the same SAT score - one outperformed the other or if they performed equally as well (ceteris paribus).</p>
<p>There’s nothing to apologize for. It was an interesting give and take and I’m guilty of having too much of a short fuse. I hope to be able to continue a friendlier discussion in Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>Motion, you’ve read Rousseau and you don’t see a thematic connection between the social contract and this sentence??? Do you think someone like Lincoln would agree???:
I said “tenets” of the French Revolution. As opposed to “the French Revolution.”</p>
<p>PS - Not to thread hijack. The point of my earlier comments was to attempt to express why I suspect U. Mich isn’t philosophically aligned with the notion of super-scoring, given some very common and hotly debated issues around educational achievement and class in capitalism, not to start a debate about historical influence and the dichotomous nature of the country’s founding. Take a peek at “Voltaire’s Bastards” for an interesting romp on the topic though.</p>