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by bitwize 146 days ago
I'm reminded of a meme on Facebook my wife showed me that was a two-dimensional graph of SAT score vs. GPA. The corner with the highest SAT scores but the lowest GPAs was shaded in and labelled "These are the people I want to hang out with."
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sointeresting 146 days ago
Graduated with a 1.7 GPA and a 32 on the ACT. My parents were a little dismayed.
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idiotsecant 146 days ago
I'm not sure we should romanticize ADHD, which is what you call that region. If those people could be high SAT and high GPA they would prefer it. Signed, someone in that region.
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esseph 146 days ago
Who said anything about ADHD?
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idiotsecant 146 days ago
That's who lives in that region, almost exclusively.
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nradov 146 days ago
Nah. There are plenty of intelligent students who don't have ADHD but are either lazy or rebellious enough to not care about conventional measures of academic success.
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irishcoffee 146 days ago
Sure isn't.

I annihilated the SATs. My grades were only good in high school because I was just "gifted" enough to get As without studying. I do not have and never had ADHD. I also never learned how to study.

I almost failed out of college. I didn't know how to study. I didn't have the habits. I sure had a lot of fun in high school and college though.

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esseph 145 days ago
Nah. I think I graduated HS with a 2.7ish and got a 36 on my ACT in 7th grade.
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tayo42 146 days ago
What does the reverse imply? High GPA, low SAT?
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irishcoffee 146 days ago
Probably the stupid-and-diligent bit.

> In 1933, while overseeing the writing of Truppenführung, the manual for leading combined arms formations, Hammerstein-Equord made one of the most historically prescient observations on leadership. During the writing effort, he offered his personal view of officers, classifying them in a way only he could:

> “I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent — their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy — they make up 90% of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent — he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.”

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2019/10/08/the-four-classes-o...

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