Alright - here's the deal. Apparently, IQ scores and SAT scores are directly coorelated (A 1600 means you have roughly a 152+ IQ, A 1080 Means your IQ is about 100, the formula to convert from SAT Scores to IQ scores is (SAT Score - 80)/ 100 = IQ Score. The SAT was originally designed to BE another form of IQ test, but the P.C. brigade got on its case and they had to back down, and now say that it only measures "Your ability to take the SAT." Dumbasses.
Anyway, here's the dilemma I've run into - The school I go to has an average SAT score of 1210. This implies that the average IQ score in the school is 114 - Which is an accurate number because the school actually GAVE IQ test a while back without telling us what they were and have our scores recorded in our permanent record, which I found out when I tried to transfer out of our high school. It even had three digits, which personally amazed me.
Now, because our school uses Microsoft networking and keeps the stats of our entire school online, and thanks to the help of the school psychologist's account
, I found these stats to be accurate. This is amazing - we are talking about a public school here. Now, having a public school where the average IQ is 115 struck me as ... odd. That's an entire standard deviation above the mean. 68% of the population should be between 85 and 115 - but if the average student has a 115, and our school has about 2000 students... It makes me wonder what the hell is going on.
When I went away to CTY on the whole CTY thing there were ten kids from Wilton, and virtually everyone I met in school qualified to go to CTY, which seriously struck fear into my heart. (CTY is this program for "talented" youth that uses SAT scores to determine eligibility.)
The only thing special about our school is money. I live in an incredibly rich, preppy town. 17 year old kids drive Corvettes and Ferraris to school. Since the tests were administered without parental knowledge, the students could not have been coached. Are SAT and IQ scores so worthless that just having your parents be fucking rich is enough to make you a candidate for mensa? I was under the impression that intelligence was innate...
(BTW, please don't post your scores. I'd rather not have this turn into a pissing contest.)
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