"Dave" wrote in message

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:05:17 GMT, "Maxprop" said:

To take an anecdotal example, my daughter attended an elementary school
where the minimum criterion for admission was a very high IQ score,
regardless of the parents' wealth. She then attended a private prep
school
where the parents' money was at least a significant admission factor
for
many students and the average IQ was much lower. The two groups were
just
about on a par in their college records of both admissions and
performance.

Your example appears to support my contention rather than your own.
Regardless, the contention of the radical left that SAT/ACT scores
correlates with IQ is bogus, and laughable.

I don't think so, Max. What it shows is that extraordinary teaching
efforts
can compensate to a considerable degree for lack of native ability. The
high
IQ group performed well without the small classes, exceptionally good
teachers and extra individual tutoring paid for by parents.

Perhaps I'm not seeing something here. Your anecdote implies that two
groups of disparate average IQ scored equally well on the entrance exams.
That would seem to support the notion that IQ and SAT scores do not
necessarily correlate, regardless of the underlying reasons.

Max