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Originally Posted by wdsguy
Everyone knows that SAT and standarized test scores don't matter for shit, you can train a monkey to do well on them.
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He's right.
Here, I'll prove it:
What's the largest city in Uganda? Don't know? Don't worry -- I'll tell ya. It's Kampala. Now you know. Are you any more intelligent? Or have you simply received a new piece of information? Exactly. IQ tests, while they certainly make use of factual recall, place on emphasis on testing for
methodological intelligence and
general aptitude -- not facts and formulas. Of course, since there is likely to be a statistical correlation between IQ score and SAT score, the chart is anecdotally useful -- however, not in any way scientific.
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