<p>For example, someone who scores 2000+ is more intelligent than say a person who scored below the National average?</p>
<p>Yes. google is your friend.</p>
<p>[http://pss.sagepub.com/content/15/6/373.short[/url</a>]
<a href=“http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886906000869[/url]”>Validation of the Frey and Detterman (2004) IQ prediction equations using the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales - ScienceDirect](<a href=“http://pss.sagepub.com/content/15/6/373.short]http://pss.sagepub.com/content/15/6/373.short[/url”>http://pss.sagepub.com/content/15/6/373.short)</a>
If you want the full PDFs then send me a PM (I can access these journals)</p>
<p>M+CR does.</p>
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No, correlation does not imply that someone with a higher score is smarter than someone with a lower score…</p>
<p>Do a survey, plot SAT score vs. IQ. Find r.</p>
<p>lol… I really wonder what exactly does SAT test us… IQ? Remembering words? or comprehensive…</p>
<p>A little history is in order. The original IQ tests were created in the the early 1900s by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon. With some modications, their test was adoted by the Army during World War I and called the Army Alpha Test. It was used to determine who could be officer material. A certain psychology professor from Princeton University, Carl Brigham, had a major roll in administering that test.</p>
<p>That was a time when immigration was rampant particularly from European nations. Many Americans did not actually think the same way many do now. For example, Congress passed and President Wilson gladly enforced the Sedition Act which made it a felony to protest or speak out against the government’s actions in the war, particularly if you were a German or Irish immigrant (the Germans for obvious reasons, the Irish because of the formation of the IRA and its despisement of England, our ally in the war). Many were arrested and sentenced to years in prison for the slightest criticism of the government’s role in the war.</p>
<p>Moreover, there were many presumably upstanding Americans who did not particularly believe it was wise to allow immigrants into the country (maybe that is not really different from today). They formed an organization called the American Eugenics Society of which Brigham was not only a member but also a freguent speaker and writer for its cause. The guiding principal of the Society was that upper crust White Anglo Saxon Americans were the superior race and most immigrants were deemed inferior, be they italian, irish, jewish, chinese, black, or anything else that did not meet the profile of a financially secure, upper crust american of white anglo saxon descent. The goal of the Society was not just to control immigration but to take all steps necessary to assure the superior race did not mix, socially or sexually, with those deemed inferior for fear that the blood of the superior race could be contaminated and eventually all of America would be dumbed down. Moreover, though women were needed, they were also considered inferior and were expected to keep to their place in society, as an obedient wife and bearer of children who did not necessarily need education.</p>
<p>Brigham became fascinated with the IQ and Army Alpha Test. What he found was a very peculiar phenomenon. The vast majority of those who did well enough to become officer material were well-educated upper crust white anglo saxon americans. Immigrants from all the inferior countries usually did not do well. That generated his further elucidation. Following the war he wrote a book for the Society called The Study of American Intelligence which analyzed how the IQ and alpha test showed that all the inferior races were of less intelligence and should not be allowed to mix with the superior race. he also decided to create a standard admissions test that could be used by colleges to admit students or, more precisely in his view, used by colleges to reject students with lower scores who would most likely be all the inferior immigrants and races and thus assure those low-lifes did not get into good colleges and mix with the superior race. His initial developed test in about 1925 looked sneakingly similar to the Alpha Test and it had a math and reading section and also looked sneakingly similar to even the modern SAT test. Its name eventually became the Scholastic Aptitude Test (a name eventually abandoned by the College Board in favor of just SAT). It took a while to get the test accepted but by the early 1930s Cooper Union and Harvard were using it at least for determining scholarships. It became more accepted through Harvard’s use and soon spread to many eastern colleges and became the accepted admissions test. The College Board was formed and Brigham was an officer of it.</p>
<p>There were of course critics who believed the truth was that the test was biased in that its questions could be better answered correctly by those upper crust americans who had attended excellent educational institutions for grade and high school. Then some strange things started to happen. Principal among them in the 1930s was the rise of Hitler and his claim of superior race. As tensions between the Germany and others grew, the principles of the American Eugentics Society came under attack and fell out of favor. Moreover, some of the inferior races, particularly those who also were able to attend excellent educational instituions, soon started to do as well on the SAT test as the superior race. Brigham himself in the early 1940s had an epiphany, coming to the conclusion that the critics were right in that the test was biased and the scores would mostly reflect educational quality and familiarity with terms used on the test. In fact, he became obessesed with getting colleges to cease using his biased test. However, it was already entrenched in its use and the major colleges weren’t about to give it up. Fortunately for them, while they were trying to figure out how to deal with Brigham and his 180 degree turn, Brigham died and the test lived on.</p>
<p>So yes, the SAT was in fact a product and descendant of the original IQ tests. Perhaps it measured IQ but then one has to wonder what did IQ actually measure?</p>
<p>Wow, that was a very interesting post, drusba. I was just going to add that there is a moderate correlation between the two that you can read about on the Wikipedia page for the sat.</p>
<p>My OPINION would be no. It’s a number of measurement on a given day. It does not take into account variables such as illness, batteries giving out in your calculator, or your dog dying the day before. Neither test measures your ability to think in a creative manner either. Arts people typically score lower but that doesn’t mean they aren’t ready or will do poorly in college.</p>