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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

>The many different kinds of IQ tests include a wide variety of item content. Some test items are visual, while many are verbal. Test items vary from being based on abstract-reasoning problems to concentrating on arithmetic, vocabulary, or general knowledge.

The SAT tests abstract reasoning (read a story and answer questions), arithmetic, vocabulary... It's an IQ test.



Then why doesn't the article list the SAT in with the other dozen or so tests? Nor any other aptitude tests?

Not all standardized tests are IQ tests. Just as not all tests involving reasoning, arithmetic, and vocabulary are not IQ tests.

https://prepexpert.com/sat-to-iq/#

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/12/04/why-should-...

Mensa considers that scores from after January 31, 1994, "No longer correlate with an IQ test."




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