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by mj_olnir 2618 days ago
Do you have a source on the first claim?

I'm curious, as someone who was slightly involved with a documentary [1] exposing pitfalls of standardized testing. Generally the SAT only has shown a weak correlation between test scores and first year (some studies I read showed only first semester, but I don't have them on hand right now) collegiate performance [2].

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3393042/ [2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/26/new-research-...

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>Generally the SAT only has shown a weak correlation between test scores and first year [...] collegiate performance [2].

That's not what your cite says. The InsideHigherEd article actually shows a strong correlation between SAT and grades but Aquinas identified a minority % of schools where it didn't. Please carefully read the 3 bullet points again and notice the minority percentages.

Your qualifier of "Generally" in your comment is misrepresenting Aguinis' findings.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf?origin=...

Correlation was .82 between the SAT and the armed forces vocational aptitude battery, which is designed as an IQ test.

https://pumpkinperson.com/2016/12/14/how-well-does-the-sat-c...

Correlation was 0.48 between SAT and Raven Progressive Matrices.