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By Born2Lose

that if making inferences requires children to apply their prior experiences to reading, as Anna said, kids who have fewer life experiences (e.g. low socioeconomic kids) should not be expected to perform as well on "reading"
tests as kids from families that are able to provide their children with many meaningful experiences. This infers that state testing is inheritantly predjudiced against low socioeconomic kids.

Hmmmm... makes sense to me.

It also seems that "drawing conclusions" requires critical thinking ability, which is developmental, at least as much as it does actual reading ability.

So, a kid may be able to read very well, but if he just can't put two and two together even if he can read all the words and knows what those words mean, he'll fail the reading test.

If I may draw a conclusion here:

Neither "making inferences" nor "drawing conclusions" are fair tests of whether or not a child can read.