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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive Ya, and I sucked on it! :) *txt*Posted by pork on December 01, 2001 at 10:33:53: In Reply to: Pork, did you take the SAT? posted by JP on December 01, 2001 at 08:20:03: : I responded above and said that I thought SAT scores and IQ were typically correlated. I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice if everything in the world worked out neatly and predictably like that. To the credit of the SAT-makers, they abandoned that notion a long time ago, but some zealots still hold to it. (Also, keep in mind that fluid g-tests are not based on math, vocabulary, or any other educational field.) : So I'm curious if your SAT was near the top as well. Not remotely. Only 1170 (in 1993, before the ante was upped). I will admit I got no sleep the night before (that's not a figure of speech -- I really did stay up all night), but never mind that. I doubt I could have scored much higher at the time. I've never been particularly studious, and the highest math I had taken was Algebra I. Some more curious details (perhaps to compensate for my boasting in my last post :) -- When I was in the 4th grade, my verbal ability equivalency was estimated at 10th-grade level. In the 9th grade, my verbal ability equivalency was estimated at the 15th grade level (college junior). YET... When I was in the 7th grade, a psychologist tested me, and estimated my verbal IQ at about 87. My equivalency test scores in math (similar to an SAT score, which is similar to an IQ score?) have fluctuated greatly over the years. In the 4th grade, 97. In the 7th grade, 41. In the 9th grade, about 70. In the 11th grade, 96. My brother was tested by a psychologist in the 1st grade, and was given an overall IQ score of 89. A few years later, he was in a "Gifted and Talented" program in school. "You mean that's not the way it works?" :P My (psychologist-tested) IQ scores and scholastic equivalency scores have fluctuated wildly over the years, and have NEVER corresponded with each other. I have a friend whose IQ was profesionally tested at 162 when he was 11 years old. He never took the SAT, so I have no reference for comparison in that way, but he never achieved over the 60th-to-80th percentile range in any of the school-administered equivalency tests, which are akin to the SAT (and should correlate in any case, right?). TheSpark.com may be a silly site, but its "IQ Test" has been normed -- the average score of its 300,000 or so testees has been set to 100. I don't know what the standard deviation is, so I don't know whether the test's score is ratio or deviation based. Probably ratio. : If you took some other college board (ACT - I'm not sure if you're in America or not) I don't know how/if they correlate to SAT. Ya, I'm in America. Why else would I know so little about math? :P Later, ^(oo)^
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