The SAT measures intelligence. Period.

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<p>Indeed. Mensa, which is, I believe the largest and oldest of the high-IQ societies, merely notes that PSATs after 5/93, and SATS after 1/94 are not acceptable. One presumes that they did this because they found a lack of correlation. I do recall that ages ago they made a point of emphasizing allowing SAT scores.</p>

<p>I would say that it is reasonable to presume a modest correlation between SAT 1 and IQ, but there are a great many reasons that this is not a strong correlation.<br>

  1. SAT 1 is strongly correlated to income
  2. SAT 1 makes limited allowances for processing issues including dyslexia, ADD, and slow processing speed.
  3. SAT 1 can be studied for. How much this matters is debatable, but there are certainly individuals here who have raised their scores far more than would make sense if the SAT 1 was perfectly correlated to IQ.
  4. SAT 1 is , essentially, a low ceiling test. There are no tremendously difficult questions on it.
  5. SAT 1 does not measure several important areas of intelligence (which are measured by standard IQ tests ).
  6. SAT 1 is heavily biased in language
  7. SAT 1 requires a certain amount of math which disadvantaged students may not always have access to.
  8. SAT 1 is biased against ‘slow/deep thinkers’. (THe sorts of people who will ponder a question for a long time find taking the SAT agony.)
  9. SAT 1 essay is very strongly biased against writers who cannot write quickly.</p>