Celebrities' SAT scores revealed amid controversy over regrading

UIK Daily Mail ^ | March 7, 2014 | DAILY MAIL REPORTER

[kiryandil]

Mine was 1430 (1973) Does that count for something?...

An excellent score. That was back when the SAT was real.

Did you study/prep for it at all, like they've been doing for quite a few years? I'm guessing not. It didn't become fashionable until we were out of hi skool.

[kiryandil]

Were they released, the unsupported theory that he is a ‘genius’ or ‘exceptionally intelligent’ would be dispelled.

None of valedictorian or salutatorian pals would have ever advanced the theory that a Navy "corpseman" could speak "Austrian".

I'm just sayin'. MomJeans Obama is a dim bulb.

[Gaffer]

When English is your second language, regardless of how well and articulately you can speak it when ‘reading’ [as in TelepromptR] the nuances of many words are missed. Couple that with a sham education and you have Obama.

[kiryandil]

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.

Some people don't test well, or don't care. I don't think it invalidates it at all.

[sheana]

I don’t remember mine either. Once I received my score and it got me into college I totally forgot about it. Maybe because I dropped out and went to work full time and didn’t go back til I was 29. By then I was married, had a baby, was working full time and going to school full time. My SAT score was the least of my worries. Lol

[tanknetter]

I remember when Tom Clancy was on Jeopardy and pretty much ran the board, with over $25 grand in the bank going into Final.

Then he blows just about all of it by saying that before the Eagle the USPS logo was a Greyhound. Rather than a Pony Express Rider. And Clancy’s dad was a mailman!

I can’t remember who he was up against, but apart from that last choke he made them look like idiots.

[MrB]

He could have blown the test off, knowing that he was connected and it didn’t matter.

He’s definitely not a stupid man. I’d say wickedly cunning would be a more apt description though.

[kiryandil]

I should’ve prefaced my comments with to say that intelligence based on standardized tests is not an objective measure.

Then there are NO objective measures of intelligence. Nice deconstructionism.

They're measuring something, and the something is not just a random "whoops, I scored well by accident". For multiple choice, there is a chance of scoring well by accident, but taking more than one intelligence test would burst that particular bubble.

[Sherman Logan]

Doing poorly on an SAT or IQ test does not necessarily mean a person is not intelligent.

However, doing really well is an extremely good indicator that he is intelligent.

IQ tests have wildly varying formats. Took two in order once to quality for Mensa. Score differed by 36 points.

[Let's Roll]

IIRC, they gave him a mulligan so he could be in Final Jeopardy and he still tanked.

[Sherman Logan]

What an IQ test actually measures, of course, is how good a person is at taking that particular test.

Different tests vary significantly in how these results correlate to actual intelligence.

I’ve always thought the, “No way to measure intelligence” crowd to be kind of amusing.

Very few people will deny that there is something we call intelligence, and that some people have more of it than others.

As with just about every other human characteristic, we can therefore expect it to be distributed on a normal bell curve.

[central_va]

Do they give the SAT in Indonesia?

[ThomasMore]

“How the hell do you get a 1020 on your SAT and a Rhodes scholarship...”

Too much pot...and oral sex during the exam. :)

[Paine in the Neck]

[yarddog]

I took a class in testing while at the University of West Florida. A few things surprised me.

One was that true/false tests are very reliable, and multiple choice are also among the best.

This was back in the 60s but at that time IQ tests were among the most reliable of all. In other words if you took another one with different questions you likely would score a very similar score.

[yarddog]

Wolf looks a little sheepish in that picture.

[Sherman Logan]

To be fair, the situation I mentioned was kind of unusual.

Test 1 was a more or less “standard” IQ test. Scored 132.

Test 2 had the person administering the test read me a long essay on an obscure subject, then answer multiple choice questions on the topic. The topic in this case was ancient Greek religious practice, cult and priests, as opposed to mythology. Scored 169.

Problem (for accuracy of second test) was I’d read a long work on the subject just a couple of weeks before. Wasn’t particularly obscure to me. :)

[KarlInOhio]

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.

J Archive record of Blitzer's game

He had -$4,600 after the second round, but since it was a celebrity match they gave him some money for the final round rather than sending him back to the dressing room early like they should have.

[central_va]

Pre-Recentering SAT to IQ Estimator

SAT V+M	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile		SAT V+M	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile
1600	163.91	168.17	99.999		1010	106.80	107.25	67.485
1590	162.94	167.14	99.999		1000	105.83	106.22	65.130
1580	161.98	166.11	99.998		990	104.86	105.19	62.714
1570	161.01	165.08	99.998		980	103.90	104.16	60.247
1560	160.04	164.04	99.997		970	102.93	103.12	57.739
1550	159.07	163.01	99.996		960	101.96	102.09	55.199
1540	158.10	161.98	99.995		950	100.99	101.06	52.637
1530	157.14	160.95	99.993		940	100.02	100.03	50.065
1520	156.17	159.91	99.991		930	99.06	98.99	47.492
1510	155.20	158.88	99.988		920	98.09	97.96	44.929
1500	154.23	157.85	99.985		910	97.12	96.93	42.388
1490	153.26	156.82	99.981		900	96.15	95.90	39.878
1480	152.30	155.78	99.976		890	95.18	94.86	37.409
1470	151.33	154.75	99.969		880	94.22	93.83	34.990
1460	150.36	153.72	99.961		870	93.25	92.80	32.631
1450	149.39	152.69	99.950		860	92.28	91.77	30.340
1440	148.42	151.65	99.938		850	91.31	90.73	28.123
1430	147.46	150.62	99.922		840	90.34	89.70	25.988
1420	146.49	149.59	99.903		830	89.38	88.67	23.940
1410	145.52	148.55	99.880		820	88.41	87.64	21.983
1400	144.55	147.52	99.851		810	87.44	86.60	20.121
1390	143.58	146.49	99.817		800	86.47	85.57	18.357
1380	142.62	145.46	99.775		790	85.50	84.54	16.693
1370	141.65	144.42	99.725		780	84.54	83.51	15.129
1360	140.68	143.39	99.666		770	83.57	82.47	13.666
1350	139.71	142.36	99.595		760	82.60	81.44	12.303
1340	138.74	141.33	99.510		750	81.63	80.41	11.038
1330	137.78	140.29	99.411		740	80.66	79.38	9.869
1320	136.81	139.26	99.293		730	79.70	78.34	8.794
1310	135.84	138.23	99.156		720	78.73	77.31	7.808
1300	134.87	137.20	98.996		710	77.76	76.28	6.908
1290	133.90	136.16	98.810		700	76.79	75.25	6.091
1280	132.94	135.13	98.595		690	75.82	74.21	5.351
1270	131.97	134.10	98.346		680	74.86	73.18	4.684
1260	131.00	133.07	98.062		670	73.89	72.15	4.086
1250	130.03	132.03	97.737		660	72.92	71.11	3.551
1240	129.06	131.00	97.367		650	71.95	70.08	3.075
1230	128.10	129.97	96.947		640	70.98	69.05	2.653
1220	127.13	128.94	96.474		630	70.02	68.02	2.281
1210	126.16	127.90	95.942		620	69.05	66.98	1.954
1200	125.19	126.87	95.347		610	68.08	65.95	1.667
1190	124.22	125.84	94.684		600	67.11	64.92	1.417
1180	123.26	124.81	93.948		590	66.14	63.89	1.200
1170	122.29	123.77	93.135		580	65.18	62.85	1.013
1160	121.32	122.74	92.239		570	64.21	61.82	0.851
1150	120.35	121.71	91.258		560	63.24	60.79	0.713
1140	119.38	120.68	90.187		550	62.27	59.76	0.595
1130	118.42	119.64	89.023		540	61.30	58.72	0.494
1120	117.45	118.61	87.763		530	60.34	57.69	0.409
1110	116.48	117.58	86.405		520	59.37	56.66	0.338
1100	115.51	116.55	84.947		510	58.40	55.63	0.277
1090	114.54	115.51	83.388		500	57.43	54.59	0.227
1080	113.58	114.48	81.729		490	56.46	53.56	0.185
1070	112.61	113.45	79.970		480	55.50	52.53	0.150
1060	111.64	112.42	78.113		470	54.53	51.50	0.122
1050	110.67	111.38	76.161		460	53.56	50.46	0.098
1040	109.70	110.35	74.117		450	52.59	49.43	0.079
1030	108.74	109.32	71.986		440	51.62	48.40	0.063
1020	107.77	108.29	69.773		430	50.66	47.37	0.050

[o-n-money]

How the hell do you get a 1020 on your SAT and a Rhodes scholarship...
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He didn’t inhale right before the testing.