[hackyhacky]

The SAT was never an IQ test, and it certainly doesn't measure "merit", whatever that is. It's a Scholastic Aptitude Test, and it isn't particularly good at that either.

If we had a good "test for merit" then we could directly assign people to their roles and ignore their actual performance.

[JumpCrisscross]

> It's a Scholastic Aptitude Test, and it isn't particularly good at that either

It’s a pretty good measure for how a student will do in their first year in college.

[fn-mote]

So is high school GPA.

[kelipso]

Not if you went to an easy school vs a difficult school vs a school that gives mostly As. Never heard of grade inflation or what?

[everybodyknows]

"Aptitude" was dropped from the name back in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Name_changes

It may have become something of a dirty word ...