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The SAT was never an IQ test, and it certainly doesn't measure "merit", whatever that is. It's a Scholastic Aptitude Test, and it isn't particularly good at tha

The SAT was never an IQ test, and it certainly doesn't measure "merit", whatever that is. It's a Scholastic Aptitude Test, and it isn't particularly good at that either. If we had a good "test for merit" then we could directly assign people to their roles and ignore their actual performance.

JumpCrisscross 9mo ago
> It's a Scholastic Aptitude Test, and it isn't particularly good at that either It’s a pretty good measure for how a student will do in their first year in college.
- fn-mote 9mo ago
  So is high school GPA.
  - kelipso 9mo ago
    Not if you went to an easy school vs a difficult school vs a school that gives mostly As. Never heard of grade inflation or what?
everybodyknows 9mo ago
"Aptitude" was dropped from the name back in 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Name_changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Name_changes It may have become something of a dirty word ...