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12-13-2009, 02:20 PM
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every time somebody initiates a thread in OT about grades and test scores, it seems that the overwhelming majority of the teen population (and adults who can remember how they did) are enrolled in honors classes, get top grades, achieve very high relative standardized test scores, and are quite intelligent in general.
Is the talkbass population smarter than your average human?
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12-13-2009, 02:21 PM
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12-13-2009, 02:22 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Test scores and grades are not a measure of intelligence. |
12-13-2009, 02:22 PM
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Endorsing: 1964 EARS, LLC. | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Southern California | | i'm sure the same is happening in the guitar forums too. No?  |
12-13-2009, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Test scores and grades are not a measure of intelligence. | they are to grad schools, unfortunately for some! |
12-13-2009, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Test scores and grades are not a measure of intelligence. | Well said. |
12-13-2009, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Test scores and grades are not a measure of intelligence. |
the SAT 1 is, to an extent. It focuses mainly on reasoning and analysis skills.
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12-13-2009, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Maryville, TN | | | Probably either people are lying or the only ones saying their test scores etc are the ones that are smart enough to brag about it.
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12-13-2009, 02:24 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Perhaps the members who have/had low grades are not posting about it. |
12-13-2009, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Houston (right now: RIT) | | Anyway, those doing well are more likely to post their scores.
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12-13-2009, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk Perhaps the members who have/had low grades are not posting about it. | i can hear it now: "i got a 140 on math/verbal"
Not something i'd be bragging about, so what you say makes sense lol |
12-13-2009, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | most people don't brag about ignorance.
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12-13-2009, 02:30 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Nope. I'm nearly a complete idiot, I just passed all my classes with A's and B's. |
12-13-2009, 02:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I'd say most of us are Smarter Than a 5th Grader though...
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12-13-2009, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk Perhaps the members who have/had low grades are not posting about it. | Or they don't understand the question.
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12-13-2009, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill Or they don't understand the question. | Wut?  |
12-13-2009, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Test scores and grades are not a measure of intelligence. | They most definitely are, they just aren't an unerringly accurate measure of intelligence.
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12-13-2009, 02:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Harrisburg, PA | | | thank god I dont need my intellect to play music. |
12-13-2009, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by SpamBot They most definitely are, they just aren't an unerringly accurate measure of intelligence. | Well, it mostly depends on the subject of the test. If its the kind of subject where all you need to do is to memorize theory, then it really isn't a measure of intelligence while something like a physics exams, where you have to concentrate and solve problems would be a much much better measure of intelligence. It still wouldn't be a good measure since someone could be good in physics and be a total ****** in languages, but still better than exams about memorizing stuff.
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12-13-2009, 06:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: St. Paul, MN | | | Keep in mind that despite any one person's opinion, if most of the colleges in the world look at ACT/SAT scores, the tests must be, if not optimal, the best thing we have to measure intelligence.
Also the word "******" is offensive. Not to me personally, but on a community as large as this, you probably don't want that up lest someone is bothered by it.
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