i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

After Bob's LSA lecture last year, I sent an alarmed e-mail to my mom, who's occasionally worked as a grader for the SAT and other standardized tests. I blogged parts of her thoughts about computer, and I'm copying the best of it below:

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Most of us have heard of service dogs — but what about service horses, chimpanzees, or parrots? Should they be treated the same way under the Americans with Disabilities Act that more "typical" or "expected" service animals are? Or should there be different categories within the designation of "service animal" to determine which companions are allowed in which public places? That's the subject of this December 31, 2008 New York Times Magazine story.