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Does The SAT Still Measure Intelligence?

Anonymous Sat 29 Aug 21:33:13 2020 No.12063863 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12063879 >>12065098 >>12065107 >>12065375 >>12066178 >>12067675 >>12067833 >>12068891

A couple years back I took it without studying at all and got a mediocre score. Flash forward two years later, and I am now attending a college where the average SAT score is a 1200. What gives?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Aug 2020 21:37:41 No.12063879 Report

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>>12063863
I didn't study at all and got 1490, also I consider myself retarded. So no, by my example it does not measure intelligence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Aug 2020 21:38:05 No.12063880 Report

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1200 is 72nd percentile which is very mediocre. It’s a rough proxy of intelligence probably with a large amount of variance around the actual iq score you would have gotten from a professional iq test if you were to convert your SAT score. I’ve heard it’s less g-loaded because of the test prep mania but at the same time I’ve heard test prep doesn’t affect score significantly. I never took it and I’m much more intelligent than most students at top tier universities so I don’t worry about it.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 06:09:33 No.12065098 Report

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>>12063863
I got a perfect score in math without ever studying. It's a fucking joke. Even among honors college students their average is like a 1300-1400 and I got that after I almost fell asleep.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 06:11:10 No.12065102 Report

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I never thought having my SAT score be out of 2400 would make me feel old

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 06:13:19 No.12065107 Report

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>>12063863
Mensa stopped accepting the SAT as proof of IQ back in 1994. Make of that what you will.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 07:26:32 No.12065219 Report

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>>12065107
Mensa is still eternally butthurt that they're not entirely comprising of the ruling class so I take most of their decisions with a grain of salt
That being said I don't consider SAT as proof of IQ since it's literally not an IQ test, and I'm not convinced IQ measures intelligence well either

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 08:42:12 No.12065375 Report

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>>12063863
It predicts intelligence

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 08:46:43 No.12065382 Report

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>>12065219
IQ could measure intelligence well.

Our actual problems are that we use a single number when we should use several because brain does more than one thing.

Another issue is bias in tests or even their validity to begin with. There's nothing erong with IQ, just how its used in practice, and sadly, current implementation of IQ has nothing to do with science.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 14:51:12 No.12066178 Report

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>>12063863
The SAT was dumbed down recently.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 14:52:56 No.12066186 Report

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>>12065382
>Our actual problems are that we use a single number when we should use several because brain does more than one thing.
Isn't that essentially what the WAIS-IV does with all of the subtests?

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 21:58:13 No.12067675 Report

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>>12063863
They've changed the test from an "aptitude" to an "assessment" test so no.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 22:37:32 No.12067833 Report

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>>12063863
SAT measures only one thing: how well someone can perform on the SAT. Any other "useful" metric has to be proven to be correlated with SAT score.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2020 22:53:29 No.12067892 Report

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The College Board is a monopolistic scam that exists to leech money off of students, the SAT serves that purpose and nothing else
https://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Articles/v14n7.htm

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 00:36:26 No.12068398 Report

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>>12067833
Well, the SAT was a defacto IQ test once upon a time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 04:11:36 No.12068891 Report

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>>12063863
>Does the SAT still measure intelligence?
No. It never did. There has never been a way to measure intelligence and there never will be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 04:29:49 No.12068928 Report

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>>12065102
same, especially considering that growing up it was the other way around

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 04:44:46 No.12068955 Report

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shit ass test

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