<p>SAT doesn’t measure intelligence. Neither IQ tests really do, not even with the included deviations. Richard Feynman’s IQ was tested as 125: yet he was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. Lots of people with scores with IQ scores of 180 probably never had a tenth of his insights, and not a hundredth of his accomplishments. Furthermore, there is little reason to believe that IQ tests have improved so greatly over the years that they now actually measure intelligence. If they had, then they would have a convincing(and comprehensive) supporting theory, but they don’t. They just test some particular aspects of intelligence, nowhere near the billions of connections in our brain. Practice makes perfect: usually the more IQ tests you take, the higher your score. The question simply can’t test a large part of one’s intelligence. The comparative reliability of IQ tests(i.e. people have similar scores of different IQ tests) can actually be induced by the fact that IQ test typically don’t differ that much from one another.</p>
<p>On on the other hand, there is a noticeable statistic correlation between high scores on SAT and intelligence, mainly because more intelligent people:
a)learn logically, and therefore are faster learners(so they have a better preparation)
b)think faster, see patterns, save time
b)have better intuitions, and can more easily adapt and guess the answer if they don’t know</p>
<p>But this matter of statistics obviously says next to nothing about one particular test taker’s highest possible IQ. What is the highest possible IQ for someone who scored 2100 on the SAT? 230. What is the highest possible IQ for someone who scored 1500 on the SAT? 230. What is the highest possible IQ for someone who scored 600 on the SAT? 230. The score, however, may say something about someone’s lowest possible real IQ(assuming, of course, that IQ can be really meaningful).You can’t have an IQ of 80 and score a 2400.</p>