NFL pledges to halt ‘race-norming,’ review Black claims

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Race norming is the practice of using a person’s racial classification as a factor in adjusting the results of medical, psychological, neurological, or other similar tests or assessments.

More formally called within-group score conversion and score adjustment strategy, race-norming is the practice of adjusting test scores to account for the race or ethnicity of the test-taker. It was first implemented by the Federal Government in 1981 with little publicity and was subsequently outlawed by the US Congress in 1991.

The NFL use of “race-norming” — assumes Black players start out with lower cognitive function