SAT's measure intelligence?

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<p>The SAT does not measure intelligence but it is a good way to measure different students’ abilities</p>

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<p>First post woo!</p>

<p>I do not believe that the SAT can measure intelligence because intelligence can not be measured. IQ is a false identifier of human intellectual ability and is inherently biased. Essentially an IQ test is comparable to measuring a human skull to identify intelligence. </p>

<p>How could the SAT measure an abstract concept like intelligence? </p>

<p>Source
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould </p>

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<p>SAT is correlated with IQ, but I’ve heard it is a lot less similar to an IQ test than it used to be. Keep in mind that it’s a bad idea to take a personal IQ estimate based on your SAT score though. It’s a fallacy to imply that a correlation is true for an individual just because it’s true on average for a group as a whole that the individual is a part of… and that’s without even taking in consideration just how weak or strong a correlation is. Even one IQ test can’t really measure a person’s IQ to precise accuracy. And there are all sorts of factors, like being tired or nervous, that can lead to highly anomalous test results relative to your actual ability in the things that you’re being tested on.</p>

<p>nativ, have you read the critiques of that book? That book gets brought up so often as a defense of politically correct viewpoints despite the numerous critiques despite it’s legitimacy being thoroughly debunked. <a href=“Evo and Proud: Stephen. J. Gould”>http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen.%20J.%20Gould&lt;/a&gt; (search the page for the word “Gould”) … <a href=“The Mismeasure of Man - Wikipedia”>The Mismeasure of Man - Wikipedia;

<p>If IQ is a useless measure, then why is it a better predictor of life outcomes than pretty much any other indicator? It’s an even better predictor of how well a potential employee will do for a job than their actual level of experience with said job. You can argue about what the precise definition of ‘intelligence’ is, but it’s denialism to say that “IQ is a false identifier of human intellectual ability”, in my opinion.</p>