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Posted by JayMan on Wed Feb 22 08:30:07 2012, in response to Re: Affirmative Action Case Back To Supreme Court, posted by AlM on Tue Feb 21 14:04:22 2012. SAT tests are excellent predictors of one's ability to do well on standardized tests.Which in turn is an excellent predictor of a host of other things. Don't gloss over this point. They reward hard work and kids whose parents have the time and energy to introduce their kids to intellectual concepts. Let me rephrase that: they reflect the abilities of studies whose parents have passed on the genes for intelligence and conscientiousness. They penalize laziness* Which makes them predictive since success requires not only intelligence but the willingness to work hard. However, those things are correlated. lack of interest in intellectual pursuits* In other words, lack of intelligence. and kids whose parents are working two jobs and have no spare time. Which typically indicates that the parents aren't bright enough to land a job where they can get by on its income alone. Traits which many kids grow out of as they get older. Even if so, again, think in a relative sense: if child A is showing a high capacity for hard work and interest in intellectual matters at age 17-18 (when most students take the SAT) and child B does not, who is more likely to be successful at age 30? Most corporate and political leaders (if we can use those as measures of "success") did not do really well on their SAT tests. Even considering one ex-President Numbnutz, whose score translated to an IQ of about 124—well above average, that is utter bull. |
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