[toenail]

Why did Carl Brigham develop the SAT, and who supported him? To what ends?

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I like one of John Taylor Gatto's comments:

School became jail-time to escape if you could, arenas of meaningless pressure as with the omnipresent "standardized" exams, which study after study concluded were measuring nothing real.
For instance, take the case of Bill Bradley. . .
	and George W. Bush,
two of the four finalists in the 2000 presidential race. Bradley had a horrifying 480 on the verbal part of his own SATs, yet graduated from Princeton, won a Rhodes Scholarship, and became a senator; Bush graduated from Yale, became governor of Texas, and president of the United States-with a mediocre 550. If you can become governor, senator, and president with mediocre SAT scores, what exactly do the tests measure?

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[lds23]

I'm a big GWB supporter, but I just had to LMAO at that picture!

[FirstFlaBn]

Anecdotes do not evidence make.

[Biblebelter]

What does graduating from an Ivy League school have to do with getting an education? An Ivy League diploma means that you were born into an elite or you were able to successfully jump through the elitist hoops. Bush is President not because he is educated, but because his father was a former President, CIA Director, and Ambassador to China. And his Grandfather was a somebody also. I personally think this country would be a better place without Ivy League elitist Presidents. No one ever accused Ronald Reagan of having an Ivy League education and he is by far the greatest President in my life time.

[Orion]

If you can become governor, senator, and president with mediocre SAT scores, what exactly do the tests measure?

One does not have to be a scholar to be a senator, governor, or president. Patty Murray, Gary Locke, Major Owens, Shiela Lee, Maxine Waters, and Carol Mosley-Braun are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

[ladyjane]

You know 550 is not a mediocre SAT score. It's 0.5 standard deviations above the mean and is at approximately the 70th percentile. In other words 70% of the scores were below 550. True it's not 800 but it's hardly mediocre.