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Aren't most standardized tests - SAT, ACT, GRE, etc - essentially IQ tests? We don't call them that, but they're testing cognitive ability nonetheless.
by maroonblazer 8y ago
Aren't most standardized tests - SAT, ACT, GRE, etc - essentially IQ tests? We don't call them that, but they're testing cognitive ability nonetheless.
- ineedasername 8y agoNo, these are some of the tests I work with. Pop culture turned them into a proxy for IQ or Inteligence etc. They're not. The SAT for example is highly targeted towards one specific goal: predicting level of success academically in the first year of college, and only the first year. They make no other primary research claims about the utility of how the test results should be used, and in dealing with them they are very up front about the importance of a good all around picture of a student including HS GPA, rigor of courses taken, etc., along with SAT as one of multiple metrics. I repeat, it is pop culture that has distorted these tests beyond all reasonable correspondence to their actual intent.
- chillacy 8y agoThe old SAT correlated more with standard iq tests and can be used for admission into MENSA from what I remember.
- ineedasername 8y agoThe old SAT has a statistically significant correlation, but if memory serves (it might not, it's been a while) the correlation wasn't great, it has something like an r-squared value of 0.4 to 0.5, so a majority of the variance in outcomes was not explained by differing performance on the tests.
- swebs 8y agoNo, those are designed specifically to test your level of education. An IQ test would be something like Raven's Progressive Matrices.