Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wyse!weitek!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) Newsgroups: sci.psychology Subject: Re: Society for extremely gifted people? Message-ID: <2139@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 21 Mar 88 18:36:25 GMT References: <7550@apple.Apple.Com> <355@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 19 In article clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)writes: >The GRE and SAT exams are NOT intelligence tests. ETS, who likes to >make all kinds of outrageous claims, even admits to this. In fact, ETS deliberately set up the GRE and SAT scoring systems with mean 500 and sd 100 so they wouldn't be confused with the common (mis-)conception of IQ scores. They are tests of acquired knowledge and the ability to use it. (They aren't tests of the ability to acquire knowledge because they don't take into account what knowledge the testee was or wasn't exposed to). As such, however, they are still useful for admission to high IQ societies because, while a low score _doesn't necessarily_ indicate low intelligence (it indicates ignorance), a high score _is_ a reasonable indicator of high intelligence. -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@TTI.COM) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax|trwrb}!ttidca!hollombe