"Dave" wrote in message
On 9 Nov 2004 14:51:06 -0800, (Jonathan Ganz)
said:
Considerably. It shows almost conclusively that people in the blue
states
are more likely to have had their kid take a prep course for the SATs or
ACTs.
Is that a bad thing? Seems pretty smart to me...
Jon, must I draw you a picture of everything?
The point is that the underlying assumption of the presentation--that SAT
scores can be used to predict likely scores on an IQ test-- is flawed.
Not only flawed, but denied vehemently by the psychometrists that design
such tests. They've even admitted, in recent years, that such exams might
be socio-economically biased as well. So much for the this gem of a theory.
Max