I've always wondered about those people who said that the SAT etc. didn't predict grades -- since I'm afraid I did notice that the smarter I thought someone was, the higher their test scores were likely to be. Now Mark Goldblatt explains why those people got their data - and why it's wrong. (Hint: skewed sample.)
Posted by Jane Galt at May 23, 2002 8:09 AM | TrackBack | $raw=rawurlencode($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); $technolink="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html?rank=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.janegalt.net$raw"; echo ("Technorati inbound links"); ?>