The standardized educational or psychological tests are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees and military personnel. But they have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tools themselves but largely upon the user.
参考答案：现在，标准化教育测试或心理测试广泛应用于协助选拔、分类、委派或提升学生、雇员和军事人员，这些测试一直是某些人近年来在图书、杂志、日报，甚至国会中抨击的目标。把这种标准化测试作为抨击的目标是不对的，因为在抨击这类测试时，批评者没有考虑其弊病来自人们对测试不甚了解或者使用不当。这些测试本身只是一种工具，其各种特征是可以在规定的条件下用相当的精度来测定的。测试的结果是有价值的，还是无意义的，甚至是误导的，在某种程度上取决于这种工具本身，但主要取决于测试的使用者。