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"SAT reading scores down"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

1 point? 2 points?

By all means, let's make huge inferences based on margin-of-error artifacts.

9/14/11, 5:43 PM

Blogger Assistant Village Idiot said...

Gaming the SAT...the best I ever saw of that genre in the old days was Up Your SAT, which came out around 1990. There is indeed an art to these tests, but that didn't matter much when they were infrequent and there wasn't much more than rumor about how to beat them. There were clues and tells, but only the bright students figured them out. I remember that there were all sorts of legends, even among bright students taking the SAT's in the 70's, when I took them. I was quite happy to let people keep believing those stupid ideas, and kept my own decoding to myself. The dynamic is different now.

Is there much real data on whether the new section actually measures anything?

9/14/11, 6:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"College Board / ETS don't have strong incentives to lift average scores, but they also don't have strong incentives to crack down on whatever it is that is allowing elite offspring to separate themselves from the masses."

The earlier a kid figures out that life is a game, the more likely he is to win. Obviously: high test scores = elite college admission = high monetary compensation in the world of work = sex with cute chicks = sports cars = summer home in Malibu.

9/14/11, 7:10 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Those low scores must have been the reason why I was able to miss 2 questions on the Critical Reading portion of the SAT and still get an 800.

9/14/11, 7:12 PM

Blogger Eric Rasmusen said...

Charles Murray in Real Education, I think, noted that math but not verbal scores had recovered from the big decline. His theory was that schools had reacted by making their math classes rigorous, since it's easy to tell if your math class is slack, but hadn't made their English classes rigorous, since it's easier to fail to realize you're rigorous there.

9/14/11, 7:29 PM

Anonymous Difference Maker said...

high test scores = elite college admission = high monetary compensation in the world of work = sex with cute chicks = sports cars = summer home in Malibu.

Now that you put it that way, I'm highly motivated!

9/14/11, 9:27 PM

Anonymous anony-mouse said...

Young people aren't doing as much reading now?

OMG LOL ROFL

Wonder why?

9/15/11, 6:32 AM

Anonymous Maya said...

"high test scores = elite college admission = high monetary compensation in the world of work = sex with cute chicks = sports cars = summer home in Malibu.

Now that you put it that way, I'm highly motivated!"

I am not. It's the last three outcomes that really don't do anything for me.

Sir, will rolling away from the web and cracking open that GRE book get me frequent sex with one hot, intelligent, stable guy for many consistent years, a collection of weird musical instruments, vacations to world heritage cites around the globe, lots of healthy, happy and smart kids and a summer house in Alaska?

9/15/11, 11:50 AM

Anonymous Chuck11 said...

"For example, when I went to Rice, the average SAT score was about 1300. Now, it's about 1440, which makes me 140 points awesomer. What incentive do I have to complain?"

Check out this article:
"The Flynn effect puzzle: A 30-year examination from the right tail of the ability distribution provides some missing pieces (Intelligence, In Press)

9/15/11, 5:50 PM

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