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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?

>> No.12063879

>>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.

>> No.12063880

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.

>> No.12065098

>>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.

>> No.12065102

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

>> No.12065107

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

>> No.12065219

>>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

>> No.12065375

>>12063863
It predicts intelligence

>> No.12065382

>>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.

>> No.12066178

>>12063863
The SAT was dumbed down recently.

>> No.12066186

>>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?

>> No.12067675

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

>> No.12067833

>>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.

>> No.12067892

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

>> No.12068398

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

>> No.12068891

>>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.

>> No.12068928

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

>> No.12068955

shit ass test