<p>We are all of the same species, human. Therefore pure genetic variance cannot account for an entire standard deviation gap of “intelligence” that is purported by the SAT. Most of the minority kids who scored low, did so because of their education, not because they were born with an inferior brain.</p>
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<p>In 2008, 167 males and 127 females scored a 2400 SAT. This is 1.34:1, not 2.22:1.</p>
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<p>In 2008 the average composite score for males was 1525 and 1500 for females. I don’t understand how adding 140 points would not make the SAT biased towards women. As it is I think the statistics released by the college board (available at [SAT</a> Reasoning Test](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/cb/sat-reasoning]SAT”>SAT Suite of Assessments - College Board Research) for those interested) reflect interesting cultural differences and not any inherent bias.</p>
<p>edit: extremely interesting read <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/cb/historical-view-sat[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>I wouldn’t find that interesting… unless you are into that kind of stuff.</p>
<p>floridadad-- that’s where a lot of white people in America descended from. Evolutionarily (genetically, as you are saying, which go hand in hand), this affects how these certain people developed.</p>
<p>SheepGetKilled-- We are all human but we are NOT the same.</p>
<p>“Biased” is the adjective. “Bias” is a noun.</p>
<p>I would like to hope that the SAT is biased in math against girls, since I only got a 600. This really doesn’t correlate with my being in challenging (no pansy, easy A honors at our school) math classes where I could do the difficult, “tricky” problems. I would like for this bias to be further investigated. </p>
<p>And I absolutely agree that it is biased in favor of Caucasians. Whites read more of the kind of stuff they test on the reading. And in general they read more than other cultures, so of course they’re going to do better. I didn’t study a wink for the CR but still got a 740, and I’m in a white culture.</p>
<p>hobbithill- that could also be explained by how advanced your math classes are. The SAT tests up to Geometry. I took that in 8th grade. So now that I’m doing Calc BC, most of those topics (from geometry and under) aren’t refreshed every once in a while at school. Not that most of these need to be refreshed. I have to go outside of that realm.</p>
<p>And it’s proven that kids in more advanced classes tend to get “simpler” problems wrong because they’re used to approaching problems in a complex kind of way when the solution can be arrived at simply.</p>
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<p>Yes!!! that explains why I got a 700 math SAT and 14 questions right on the AMC 12 !!! thank you!!</p>
<p>This article is BS.
There’s another article similar to this posted by someone with one post. I suspect a trolling community.</p>
<p>Ambitious students are more likely to take SAT prep courses regardless of their financial status. Even the financially needy find ways to “get to know the test” through the internet- CC is a great example.</p>
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<p>And even a poor kid can buy a book with practice tests at a bookstore.</p>
<p>Or borrow a used one from somebody.</p>
<p>Putting race aside for a second, a lot of this is still genetics.</p>
<p>I have many clients who have a natural child, and an adopted child.</p>
<p>It always seems that the adopted child does more poorly in school than the natural child.</p>
<p>Even though they get the same upbringing.</p>
<p>We all have also saw studies involving twins, where two twins were separated a both, but they both wound up becoming chemical engineers, and stuff like that.</p>
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<p>@cortana… 14 right on the AMC is an 84… not really that impressive, and probably correlates with a 700.</p>
<p>I got a 800M and a 138 AMC.</p>
<p>a few words with regard to all the assertions that the SAT is biased toward certain groups who habitually score higher: Correlation does not imply causation.
That’s all.</p>
<p>@sheepkilled, 14 right is an 100.5 but i got a 97.5. It’s 6 points for a right answer and 1.5 points for an omitted answer. I got 2 easy questions wrong too. And maybe the first 8 questions correlate with the SAT and sometimes not even. The questions beyond are way past SAT level, especially when you get to the mid and high 10’s</p>
<p>“Frey and Detterman (2003) analyzed the correlation of SAT scores with intelligence test scores. They found SAT scores to be highly correlated with general mental ability, or g (r=.82 in their sample). The correlation between SAT scores and scores on the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices was .483 (.72 corrected for restricted range). They concluded that the SAT is primarily a test of general mental ability. Beaujean and colleagues (2006) have reached similar conclusions.”</p>
<p>The source? Wikipedia, of course. [SAT</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT]SAT”>SAT - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Standardized tests have engulfed our system by misleading us to believe that these test scores are the key to our future. It is a pandemic that has plagued or schools state by state into focusing on a test score rather than programs to push students to be hard workers, innovative thinkers, and contributing citizens to the community. Teachers are forced to teach towards the test. Older teachers must adapt to this testing hype by formatting their lesson plans and assignments to satisfy the requirements of assessment while at the same time implementing the cores of the curriculum. Time is spent on learning how to analyze to questions to fill in the correct bubble instead of analyzing current events to evoke action in their local community and overall the world. Students are all taught to think in the same certain way because other analysis that can be seen as more creative is labeled as incorrect by the test-correcting machine. This problematic obsession with testing is unique to the United States, and for our nation to advance in education, we must relinquish the grip that testing has on our system. If testing is either minimalized or eliminated completely than education would improve tremendously. Students would not be bothered by the tedious of studying for a pointless test and, they can focus more on more important things such as chasing their dream careers, playing sports, painting, and exercise creativity. One cant think outside the box because one is trapped in the testing bubble.</p>
<p>AMC #15</p>
<p>How many right triangles have integer leg lengths a and b and a hypotenuse of length b + 1, where b < 100?</p>
<p>(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9
(E) 10</p>
<p>obviously after some simple factoring the answer is (A)…</p>
<p>This is probably as hard as level 4/5 SAT math question, so even if you get 15 right, you are not guaranteed an 800. You need 17+ questions right to probably get an 800 I would say.</p>
<p>tl;dr</p>
<p>only people who hate on the sat are those with unsatisfactory scores.</p>
<p>“One of such groups of individuals is the poor . . .” </p>
<p>The “poor” is not a group. You should learn to look at each person as an individual. Not all poor kids get low scores on the SAT. Not all wealthy kids post high scores on the SAT.</p>