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> Our research can’t explain why these tests are so predictive of academic preparedness for MIT Can't explain why an IQ test predicts success in cognitively de
by lliamander 5y ago
> Our research can’t explain why these tests are so predictive of academic preparedness for MIT
Can't explain why an IQ test predicts success in cognitively demanding work?
- meepmorp 5y agoThe SAT/ACT aren't IQ tests.
- lliamander 5y agoYes they are: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/
- meepmorp 5y agoThey aren't. It says in the first line of the abstract that they correlate with general measures of intelligence, which is a different thing.
- lliamander 5y agoIQ means Intelligence Quotient, which is simply a way of representing a score on an intelligence test by dividing the individual's score by the population mean (and then doing transformation to make the numbers look nice). An IQ test is simply short-hand for a test of general intelligence.