relationship between SAT scores and intelligence?

[southerndog]

Of course there's a correlation between SAT scores and intelligence. The test asks questions about vocabulary, reading comprehension, algebra, and geometry. Last i checked, you had to have a brain to answer those.

Hmm, let's see.. First take the test guessing at every question, without looking at the test, then take the test actually trying at every question and see how you do.

Now, am I saying that the test determines IQ or something with 100% accuracy?? No.. But, if you take 100 people from group A, and they average 1450, and group B has an average of 1150 who do you think is going to win the following competitions between the groups:

A. Chess
B. Poker
C. Physics
D. Mathematics
etc...

When evaluating people on an individual basis, the SAT should not be the ONLY thing that one uses, but that doesn't mean the test means nothing.

The same arguments hold when arguing race and IQ. If you give 100 people from one race a reasonable IQ test, and the same test to another race, if one race scores 2 standard deviations higher on average, THAT F'IN means something.