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Studying for the SAT won’t actually improve your score much on expectation, but taking it multiple times of course will increase your expected score (since they
by centimeter 6y ago
Studying for the SAT won’t actually improve your score much on expectation, but taking it multiple times of course will increase your expected score (since they take the max).
SAT is basically an IQ test, which is of course a reasonably strong predictor of white collar job performance (ceterus paribus).
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoI don't think its 'of course'. A study at the UofIowa showed only one correlation between tested psychological features and job performance (as measured by 1-year evaluation). It was 'conscientiousness'. That is, if you kept at a task until it was actually and fully done, your boss/coworkers valued your contribution. That's it. Not about being smart or educated.
- centimeter 6y agoThe conclusion of this IQ vs job perf paper is “it’s complicated”, but essentially every meta study they cite is pretty unequivocal that IQ predicts job performance. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/#!po=0.480769 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/#!po=0.... The only room for doubt is in confounding effects like the fact that people with higher IQs are likely to enter more mentally difficult professions.