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A comment on SAT score distributions in Michigan. Parent comment

Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by Retric on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:33PM (#33110439)
That’s relatively low considering what kind of test it is. Elementary school sees a 0.7 correlation between IQ and academic performance.
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by yCombLinks on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:10PM (#33114753)
.82 is an insanely high correlation in any kind of social science
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by Retric on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:13PM (#33114797)
A benchmark of everything across all of social sciences is extremely broad when comparing two different tests of mental performance designed to correlate with other tests of mental performance.

It’s like being shocked that resting heart rate and VO2 Max happen to correlate quite well relative to other health indicators. Yes they are testing different things, but not that different.

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