Posted on 03/07/2014 9:26:15 AM PST by kiryandil
Here’s a link to a SAT I to IQ Estimator:
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/SATIQ.aspx
According to it, a SAT of 900 is equal (estimated at) an IQ of 100 — average, IOW. A score of about 1305 will get you into Mensa.
Given to him by commie Sen. William Fulbright.
Picked up? Like after your dog? I don’t think you pick up an SAT score.
circlecity: "And the Electoral College too".
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*snicker*
The College Board seeks to defuse that by saying it will partner with the nonprofit Khan Academy to provide free test preparation materials for the redesigned SAT.
This is the good news buried in the article. This removes another argument from the whining class about why everything is always so unfair all the time. With free online prep for anyone that cares to prepare themselves, poor scores means you are stupid or lazy or both, making it even clearer that you are unlikely to succeed in college, which makes the SAT an even stronger predictor of success in spite of the dumbing down.
I would like to know Hillary’s SAT and Palin SAT.
I bet Sen. Paul and Sen. Cruz aced their SAT and Cruz LSAT
Well, that invalidates the test.
You can apply many adjectives to Billy Jeff, but stupid (at least in the sense of low IQ — plus, we're measuring the big head here) is not among them.
Hence her decision to pursue a career as a Mafia goumada.
You got who posted what backwards. (Although I would be happy to take credit for Karl’s witty comeback regarding Gore)
The social normalization of the SAT as a measure of intelligence is a very real thing. I should’ve prefaced my comments with to say that intelligence based on standardized tests is not an objective measure.
It cannot. Mensa used to accept SAT scores above 1300 (before 1974) and 1250 (1974-1994) as proof of eligibility. But, they stopped accepting SAT scores after that.
"Awkward: Even former US President Bill Clinton scored fairly low - with results of 1020 puts him more than 200 points below successor George W Bush's 1206"
kiryandil notes: "Even I know that 1020 plus 200 equals 1220, so 1206 is less than 200 above Clinton's score."
-------------------------------------------------> Writer must have scored poorly on mathematics? Wonder what writer's score was!
*snicker*
Glad to hear that as I’ve always thought Rush was extremely intelligent.
“Where’s Wolf Blitzer?!”
I see I’m not the only one who remembers Blitzer’s disastrous appearance on Jeopardy. He was WAY worse than I thought he’d be and I wasn’t expecting much.
===============================> circlecity: I did have trouble figuring out who said what and I knew it and studied it - and yet, I still made the mistake!
It must be siesta time! Thanks for the correction, my FRiend.
My understanding is that the SAT went from being a test of aptitude, to a test of (in large part) acquired knowledge. That’s what invalidated the SAT as a surrogate for an IQ test.
I remember Wolf being on Jeopardy too. It had to have been embarrassing as all get out. I can’t recall his exact score but it was way in the negative.
This change is so important:
“The essay will be changed in other ways, too. It will measure students’ ability to analyze and explain how an author builds an argument, instead of measuring the coherence of the writing but not the quality or accuracy of the reasoning.”
Were that ability to reason already the norm for our young people, it would have put an end to TOTUS and other prominent tards long ago.
There is something, however, to being smart under pressure, and a deadline.
Being smart, and a buck, doesn’t buy you coffee in very many places anymore.
There aren’t standardized tests for character, or persistence, and those are both, to me, as highly prized as smarts.
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