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I don't think the SAT is an IQ test. I'm sure IQ helps but parents clearly have a pivotal role - the single biggest external factor to explain variation in scor

I don't think the SAT is an IQ test. I'm sure IQ helps but parents clearly have a pivotal role - the single biggest external factor to explain variation in score perhaps. Surely the biggest factor in SAT scores is how much you the student _care_ about the SAT score. Why do you care? Maybe because your parents care, maybe because your parents don't care? At the end of the day parents are crucial to the success of their children positively and negatively.

someguydave 4y ago
This paper found a 0.82 correlation between general mental ability g and SAT scores https://archive.org/details/ScholasticAssessmentOrG/page/n1/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/ScholasticAssessmentOrG/page/n1/...
- Retric 4y ago
  That’s relatively low considering what kind of test it is. Elementary school sees a 0.7 correlation between IQ and academic performance.
  - yCombLinks 4y ago
    .82 is an insanely high correlation in any kind of social science
    - Retric 4y ago
      A benchmark of everything across all of social sciences is extremely broad when comparing two different tests of mental performance designed to correlate with other tests of mental performance. It’s like being shocked that resting heart rate and VO2 Max happen to correlate quite well relative to other health indicators. Yes they are testing different things, but not that different.