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1450 is still 99th percentile. There's essentially no difference in their test-taking ability from someone with 1590. If all else was equal and the 1450 was significantly more courageous, kind and likeable, I'm not sure why you wouldn't choose them regardless of skin color.[/quote]

serious question: how so? please, make me understand. then what do they differ in? dumb immigrant tiger mom here thinking her DC is not as successful as others that boast near perfect scores, I know s/he's as smart as those top students, s/he's just not that into it, taking mock test after mock every Sat morning for months and making associations between common questions and correct answers as I hear others do
I know you cannot teach me 101 stats but try, you seem smart enough to come up with 'no difference in their test-taking ability' despite over 100 point difference ... I mean, the score is practically some measure of the ability in taking that specific test and similar tests for that matter

SAT cannot be an intelligence measure as long as there is no standard definition of intelligence

even Dr. Frey had to admit that they found "correlations between intelligence and the SAT of roughly 0.5 to 0.9" depending on their way of defining intelligence
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/

and her 'evidence' that only modest changes are possible with test prep is from 20 years ago when test prep was very much different and from couple of low impact publications ... just in my small circle of acquaintances there were several able to boost their score with between 50-100 points between two test dates few months apart

as to her claim of 'no conflict of interest', how about the fact that she is so adamant on defending her earlier career-boosting publication while ignoring latest evidence?[/quote]

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