"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

In article .net,
Maxprop wrote:
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.

And, you have a reading comprehension problem. Not my fault.



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