Saturday, July 06, 2002


the new SAT Charles Murray weighs in on the new SAT:
Intelligence tests, maligned because they fail to produce politically correct mean scores for different socioeconomic and ethnic groups, have an irreplaceable value for individual children within those groups: Just as their originators hoped, bright youngsters from bad schools can get higher scores than pedestrian students who have gone to terrific schools. [...] A content-based SAT will make life harder for every bright child who goes to a lesser school while making life easier for children whose parents can get them into good schools.