Name some pros and cons of the ACT/SAT

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<p>I just checked the book again: The correlation was positive .82.</p>

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<p>So your claim is that the SAT is higly correlated with intelligience while the ACT has no relation at all beyond being an achievement test which I assume means a test for what you learned at school?</p>

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<p>^ No, that is not my claim.</p>

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<p>silverturtle -</p>

<p>The Frey & Detterman study was published in 2004, before the introduction of the new SAT. Also, the researchers used the ASVAB----not an IQ test–to determine the g scores of the participants. What’s more, only 64% (admittedly significant…but still questionable) of the variance in ASVAB scores was shown to be caused by the g factor (was the ASVAB truly a good measure of general intelligence?). Then, as you’ve noted, .82 correlation (or roughly 67% r-squared) existed between the SAT scores and the g factors determined from the ASVAB. Even with the .86 correlation the researchers give, after correction for nonlinearity…that’s very noteworthy, but at the same time, leaves wiggle room. </p>

<p>Despite these (what I perceive to be) issues, I’m inclined to believe the study’s results apply to the general population, but I’m not sure it extends to CCers, given our study ethic.</p>

<p>Original study’s text: <a href=“http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf[/url]”>http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Thanks, silverturtle. =)</p>

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<p>^This is the first mostly recent and scientific correlational study I’ve seen between SAT and IQ.</p>

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<p>Clearly, if the ACT correleates to the SAT, and if the SAT correlates to IQ, the ACT correlate to IQ. I;m not sure how much, but it must to some degree.</p>

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<p>I think I can put a absolute definition on intelligence; scarcity. Doctors are intelligentsia because they are so damn scare. Burger flippers at mcdonalds are not intelligent because they are populous. </p>

<p>If the burger flippers have specialized skills such as manual dexterity, good rhetoric, and good discipline, they would be surgeons, novelists, or PhDs.</p>

<p>By same logic, high SAT means intelligence= scarcity</p>