[soc.feminism] The SAT is not an IQ test

throop@cs.utexas.edu (David Throop) (02/27/91)

Ellen Mitsue Eades writes (under the header "IQ Tests")

>I distinctly remember one question on the verbal section of the SAT
>in which the example, "A bull is to a bear as a [...] is to a [...]."

The SAT is an aptitude test, which measures (or intends to measure)
college readiness.  It does not measure, nor does it claim to meausre,
general intelligence.  To use this to "prove" that IQ tests are
racially or culturally biased, as Eades and others on this thread are
claiming to do, is off base.

David Throop