>>>Worth noting, though, in Al's defense the SATs were retooled in the 80s to raise scores by an average 100 points. ( I think they decided they needed to build self-esteem <g> )
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>>>So my 1520 was really only a 1420? :)
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>>In '64 1400 would get Ivy Leagues paying attention.
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>>Just googled around a bit. I guess the big "recentering" was in 95
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>>The test scoring was initially scaled to make 500 the mean score on each section with a standard deviation of 100.[30] As the test grew more popular and more students from less rigorous schools began taking the test, the average dropped to about 428 Verbal and 478 Math. The SAT was "recentered" in 1995, and the average "new" score became again close to 500. Scores awarded after 1994 and before October 2001 are officially reported with an "R" (e.g. 1260R) to reflect this change. Old scores may be recentered to compare to 1995 to present scores by using official College Board tables,[31] which in the middle ranges add about 70 points to Verbal and 20 or 30 points to Math. In other words, current students have a 100 (70 plus 30) point advantage over their parents.
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>>( the was an awarding of 200 "striver points" for minorities sometimein the 80s before a court struck it down - don't suppose you fiddled that, so you 1520 can stand <g> )
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>>( also gets you into Mensa, I think, if you aren't already)
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>I think more people qualify than know:
>http://www.us.mensa.org/Content/AML/NavigationMenu/Join/SubmitTestScores/QualifyingTestScores/QualifyingScores.htm

Aside from the college tests and Stanford Binet i never heard of any of the others. I didn't know about any of that - especially SAT counting when I took the Mensa test in the 80s on a dare. I would take pride in the fact I took it stoned on Thai stick except for the fact that in the 80s if I hadn't *that* would have counted as an altered state of consciousness <s> ( I was dared to take it on acid, but I thought that while fun, that might have been hubris )

I found it interesting to note, by the way that the folks at Jeopardy said that they had given the Jeopardy test at a Mensa convention and were surprised to find out that the number of qualifiers wasn't as high as they expected.

Measuring "smarts" of any kind is tricky business, at best. If you're smart, you don't put too much store in it <bg>