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I read this at first as “half of Americans got high today” and was trying to guess what day it was.
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Subjunctive posted:I read this at first as “half of Americans got high today” and was trying to guess what day it was. I mean, it'd have to be April 20th
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OnlyBans posted:Stuff that definitely, totally happened. I eagerly await the follow-up about how you ran a 4-minute mile and don't see why folks are saying its tough.
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OnlyBans posted:The data you are presenting doesn't do your argument any favors since at a place where rich people have the means to cheat, the scores are still low. I would expect an expensive private school would be the kind of place where the edge-case of expensive cheating is more normalized. People clearly have the money. So, again, it doesn't seem like buying answers or getting special accommodations are actually what is driving the inequality in the system. please explain how this advances your thesis that "the SAT is incredibly easy if you go to a good school" and that you got a college-worthy score at age 13 and aced it the second time.
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One time when I was in school, I forgot to show up to an exam assessing students for admittance into MENSA. Now I know more about the kinds of people who get into MENSA, I feel like I kinda dodged a bullet.
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Some folks just stop reading at "PYF awful" and think, got it
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Also remember that at fancy private schools everyone takes the SAT/ACT, because even stupid rich kids go to college. Whereas even at good public schools most kids won't bother taking the test unless they're planning on college. So you're comparing the total cohort at one school to a selected fraction at the other.
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Red Bones posted:One time when I was in school, I forgot to show up to an exam assessing students for admittance into MENSA. Now I know more about the kinds of people who get into MENSA, I feel like I kinda dodged a bullet. Oh, me too. When I was in 4th grade my English teacher thought I was mentally disabled and they made me do an IQ test. Like a proper one administered over multiple days by a psychologist sent by the school board. It turned out I was pretty smart and just really quiet, and I remember the dumb teacher saying "he could be in MENSA!" and boy I'm glad nobody ever pushed me to do that. I mean what kind of person gets off bragging about their supposed mathematically verified intellectual ability to a bunch of random people in irrelevant situations
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Oct 14, 2021 20:35
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Sagebrush posted:I mean what kind of person gets off bragging about their supposed mathematically verified intellectual ability to a bunch of random people in irrelevant situations No real smart person does that, not with all the rubix cubes they are constantly finishing.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:21
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rubik's cube. the inventor was named rubik
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Sagebrush posted:rubik's cube. the inventor was named rubik All the cool kids decided it's now spelt with an X. Sorry 
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Sagebrush posted:rubik's cube. the inventor was named rubik Thank you
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Has anyone said “SAT on deez nuts” yet
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https://twitter.com/GraphCrimes/status/1448459925529763844cinci zoo sniper posted:Has anyone said “SAT on deez nuts” yet
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Personal anecdote, hardly evidence, but when I moved from a private all girls school to a public one, the difference was mind-boggling. It was like stepping down three grades. Despite being extremely mentally ill at the time, I could pass every class with ease, just from my knowledge from private school. Except art class. They actually taught kids, whereas in the private school it was kind of just an art themed free time. I squeaked by with a D. So even schools that have students who test poorly may be good in other areas.
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Red Bones posted:One time when I was in school, I forgot to show up to an exam assessing students for admittance into MENSA. Now I know more about the kinds of people who get into MENSA, I feel like I kinda dodged a bullet. Isn't it like the assessment for admittance into scientology?
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i forgot my SAT score the instant i got admitted to college. and it was the college I wanted to go to!
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I took the sats during that brief window when it was 2400 points so I get to brag about getting a 1500 
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My favorite part of the SATs was the proctor, bit by bit, lowering the standards for the copied statement from "in handwritten script" to "print but connect the letters to pretend it's script" to "try to at least print legibly, and use lowercase letters where appropriate. ..fine, just make smaller versions of the capitals you know."
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Sagebrush posted:Do you know how many people actually get a 1600 on the SAT every year? Nah tons of students get 1600 first try, the SAT is super easy. 
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Tunicate posted:Nah tons of students get 1600 first try, the SAT is super easy. I assumed the only possible scores were 0-1600, but even if we revise that x-axis to start at 0 it would end at 1800? jeebus bob has a new favorite as of 07:57 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Mescal posted:Isn't it like the assessment for admittance into scientology? For the rest of that class, every time we used the computer lab for something, I made sure to take the same seat and our brilliant teacher never made the connection between power issues and the fact that I could hit the power switch on the surge protector with however many surge protectors plugged into it were needed for 24 computers and CRT monitors. Nobody ratted me out because he got so frustrated and I feel absolutely no remorse because he was the only high school teacher dumb enough to call global warming a hoax back in 2001.
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powerful geochemists.ppt energy in a seminar I just sat in on 
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jeebus bob posted:I assumed the only possible scores were 0-1600, but even if we revise that x-axis to start at 0 it would end at 1800? In 2006 the SAT added an essay section worth an additional 800 points, so it was scored out of 2400. In 2016 they switched to scoring the essay separately and went back to reporting the total math and verbal scores out of 1600. This year they discontinued the essay entirely. Sagebrush has a new favorite as of 12:05 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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I hate the SAT because my mom kept signing me up for it because anything less than the max was unacceptable to her. All it really did was cut into what little free time I had.
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i flunked math & my teacher was like wtf
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"Way to flunk!"
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Sagebrush posted:This year they discontinued the essay entirely. Good. Pretty much all testing has some kind of flaw, but essay writing on a short timer is about the worst of the worst.
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jeebus bob posted:I assumed the only possible scores were 0-1600, but even if we revise that x-axis to start at 0 it would end at 1800? Much like FICO, the SAT bottoms out well before 0. This has to do with some wizardry around score distributions to make the top score (800 for each SAT section/1600 total, and 850 FICO) line up to the correct percentile of the group. The old joke is that you get 400 point for writing your name and aren't punished for wrong answers. Based on the scale, roughly as many test takers get <600 as score >1550, so there is quite a lower-bound tail The wikipage has a breakdown of score distributions showing this. I coulda sworn that they did a distribution for each test taken, but it looks like that was a rumor from my HS days.
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 There's a lot to enjoy here, but I appreciate the simple Oklahoman depressiveness of "Okay"
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Captain DIEgiene posted:
Was about to say "Parachute, CO how boring" but then goddammit Oregon e: also Ohio
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There's a lot of KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD branding around, mostly bumper stickers, but my favorite was when I saw a bumper sticker: KEEP BORING BORING
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Vavrek posted:There's a lot of KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD branding around, mostly bumper stickers, but my favorite was when I saw a bumper sticker: That's legit great
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So nobody's going to point out Booger Hole, WV? A more dignified state would go with "Nostril", but you do you, WV.
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MrUnderbridge posted:So nobody's going to point out Booger Hole, WV? Ohhh, well la-de-da Mr. Frenchman
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Tunicate posted:Nah tons of students get 1600 first try, the SAT is super easy. looks normal to me
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Outrail posted:looks normal to me 
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Memento posted:powerful geochemists.ppt energy in a seminar I just sat in on Geology and soil science is basically ecology for people who can retain information but don't have the imagination to do anything with it.
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Outrail posted:looks normal to me It's a little too skewed.
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