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The SAT doesn't correlate to grades... And grades don't correlate to much either.
by cowardlydragon 11y ago
The SAT doesn't correlate to grades...
And grades don't correlate to much either.
- steveeq1 11y agoThere's a small correlation between SAT scores and college performance, but that's mainly because the types of questions asked for the SAT are the types of questions that are asked in college exams. SATs have ZERO correlation with success in life though.
- smackfu 11y agoGrades correlate to either natural ability OR hard work.
- dragonwriter 11y agoMore accurately, IMO, grades correlate with: Current Effort × Current Ability (at the time the grades were earned) And Current Ability itself is dependent on both natural ability and past effort.
- stephencanon 11y agoTo the extent that SAT scores are used to select which students are admitted to which colleges, you remove any predictive relationship between SAT scores and grades. I.e. even if SAT scores were perfectly predictive of "college performance" in the abstract, if there were N possible scores on the SAT and exactly N colleges, each of which accepted all students with one specific score, then SAT scores would be completely uncorrelated to college grades. This is an arbitrarily contrived example, but the same principle holds true in the real world.
- scott_s 11y agoHigh school grades correlate with college grades. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/21/a-telling-study-about-act-sat-scores/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/...