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> Your standardized test scores to a large extent determine your quality of life.

This is largely untrue unless one defines quality of life with a very narrow set of criteria and/or lives in a relatively small echo chamber.

I know tons of people with very high scores who have very low QoL, and I know many multiples of that with mediocre scores who have very high QoL.

The skill (or maybe luck) to find a way to use the abilities one does have in order to provide high utility seems to be the common thread in the high QoL folks.