The father of Max Goldblatt, Mark Goldblatt is an ACE (American Cinema Editor), and has edited well over thirty films, which include The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and Pearl Harbor (2001). Goldblatt has also directed films such as Dead Heat, The Punisher (1989), and an episode of Eerie, Indiana. The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction-action film which became the break-through role for former body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... Terminator 2: Judgment Day (commonly abbreviated T2) is a 1991 movie directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick. ... Pearl Harbor is a war film released in the summer of 2001 by Touchstone Pictures. ... Dead Heat is a 1988 movie about cops and robbers (the robbers are zombies), proving that you cant keep a good cop down (or dead). ... The Punisher (Frank Castle) is a Marvel Comics anti-hero. ... Eerie, Indiana is a US television show, starting in 1991 and ending in 1992, which, despite its short runtime, nevertheless received a cult-like fan following. ...
Goldblatt is currently working on Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand with fellow editors Mark Helfrich and Julia Wong. Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is a Cuban-American Jewish film director and music video director. ... Mark Helfrich is an ACE (American Cinema Editor)-certified film editor. ...
External Links
Mark Goldblatt's filmography at the Internet Movie Database. [1]
It's entirely possible that Mark didn't take a look at the College Board data, or that he did, but didn't consider a correlation of (for example) 0.52 to be high, when in fact it's huge (from a social science perspective).
However, I really think Mark was trying to make a different point, which is that these correlations are not the same from school to school, and that the more restricted the range of SAT scores for admitted students, the smaller the correlation.
Mark's point was that some critics of the SAT may think they've proven their point by referring to this school or that school that shows a low correlation between SAT and GPA, when the cause might be the restricted range of SAT scores.
Mark's version is much more interesting and informative, because he goes into detail about criticisms of the test and alleged reasons for the change, whereas CNN glosses over the controversy and presents only one side of the story by including a tired, obligatory quote from FairTest at the end.
Thank you, MarkGoldblatt, for directly stating what so many test critics willingly miss, which is that just because a test is not perfect does not mean it is not useful.
Mark even goes on to explain the restriction-of-range phenomenon with correlations (although he doesn't use that exact term), which is another thing I rarely see in all the testing debate in the media.
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