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What was your SAT score?

3 pointsgtbcb10y ago8 comments

I suspect one reason people submit things on Hacker News is to get high quality feedback from a a reasonably intelligent audience since comments on articles from other sources of news tend to be low quality. I'd like to test this assumption, hence my curiosity about your SAT score.

Be sure to include whether it's out of 1600 or 2400.

1330/1600 and later 1520/1600 and 2200/2400

Use the comments for discussion and / or providing your score, but do provide your score using the survey link below since it will be anonymous. Another user pointed out that there would be material selection bias without anonymity.

http://goo.gl/forms/w67armMFB5peUYGJ2

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JoshTriplett10y ago· 2 in thread

Selection bias will skew your results here, even within the HN audience: people posting in this thread will have a different score distribution (likely biased towards higher scores).

You'll probably get somewhat better results with a poll, since that allows anonymous responses. You'll still have selection bias, but perhaps a bit less.

gtbcbOP10y ago

Good call. I'm adding a poll - http://goo.gl/forms/w67armMFB5peUYGJ2

byoung210y ago

Is the poll locked to your organization's domain? I can't access it. Do you have enough karma for https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll ?

wesnerm210y ago· 1 in thread

Pre-1995 adjustment 1520/1600 (99+%ile) Post-1995 1600/1600 in the modern test

hacknat10y ago

Yeah, and there have been other minor adjustments along the way (and I didn't even take the SAT - I took the ACT, which has a similar story). With the dramatic uptick in people going to University, even during and after the 90s, it was in College Board's and ACT's interest to inflate the scores.

For sure if you took the test(s) in the 90s* they were harder than they are now, but I suspect there has been some additional inflation creep along the way.

*citation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#1995_re-centering_controve...

Edit:

Holy Cow! This table shows that the percentage of students taking the ACT who achieved a perfect score increased by two orders of magnitude from 1997 to 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_(test)#Highest_score

Edit2:

Man, I really had no idea how right I was. They took away the guessing penalty from the SAT and reduced the choices from 5 to 4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/1...

gtbcbOP10y ago

1330/1600 and later 1520/1600 and 2200/2400

byoung210y ago

1520/1600 and 2280/2400

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