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From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
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Subject: GRE Scores (Was Re: SAT scores - sexist?)
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Date: 13 Apr 91 05:25:06 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.043308.16202@beaver.cs.washington.edu> 
fester@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Lea Fester) writes:

>I have heard computer science professors note with amazement that the
>verbal tends to predict academic success for PhD candidates better
>than the math does.

I suspect that it is more than a Politically Correct Legend than truth.

I know a guy who was in the *bottom* 13% of the Verbal test and in the
top 3% of the CS advanced test.  If the Verbal measurement was a good
predictor then that alone had to rule out that guy.  It did not
rule him out because some universities prefer not cross out their 
best advance test candidate.

>I have no argument with using a test that is an accurate predictor,
>assuming it really is accurate.  

In *my* opinion the advance test result is a better predictor,
but it is Politically Incorrect to show that.