The SAT is like democracy. Worst system, except for every other system. Could be improved with a conscientiousness measure. Everything else is far too easily gamed by money, status and connections. And prep courses don't help much, despite the sales pitch.
A proper full-scale IQ score would be (even) better and fairer than an SAT test.
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I disagree with both of you. You should be able to choose, say, 4 out of 10 different psychometric tests depending on where your strengths lie (verbal, mathematical, creative). It's marginally less fair, but prevents homogeneity.
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Rap battle should be one of the options, incidentally.
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Does it still make sense to gate-keep knowledge behind entrance requirements (SAT, IQ, or otherwise)?
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Well quite. When information was a scarce commodity, and dissemination was expensive, maybe yes. In the age of Youtube? And the invention of Wikipedia should have shortened all degree courses by 33%. Most of my working time at university consisted of finding shit.
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Sorry, but IQ tests do an even worse job of measuring motivation than standardized tests.
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How do standardized tests measure motivation?
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Which might be the reason we don’t use it...it would be too accurate. People wouldn’t like that
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I would really like it. Knowing roughly what your limit is, man that can save one a lot of failures.
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Nassim Taleb said “IQ” is largely a pseudoscientific swindle.
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Why shouldn't an employer be allowed to require/obtain one from a prospective employee?
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