{"id":67557,"date":"2012-04-16T22:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16341"},"modified":"2012-04-16T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T06:48:37","slug":"standardized-test-scores-math-and-verbal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/16\/standardized-test-scores-math-and-verbal\/","title":{"rendered":"Standardized test scores: math and verbal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/04\/verbal-intelligence-by-demographic\/#comment-132983\">miko&#8217;s skepticism<\/a> about the utility of WORDSUM (a vocab test) across subcultures, I went and looked for SAT data. My assumption was that math sections are more &#8220;culture-fair&#8221; (though from what I gather ETS tries hard in various ways to be culture-fair in general). The <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/d10\/tables\/dt10_151.asp\">data was not hard to find<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/04\/sat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/04\/sat.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sat\" width=\"529\" height=\"490\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also check the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Few-Students-Are-Ready-for\/128324\/\">ACT results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/HpmAR3mtvPo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by miko&#8217;s skepticism about the utility of WORDSUM (a vocab test) across subcultures, I went and looked for SAT data. My assumption was that math sections are more &#8220;culture-fair&#8221; (though from what I gather ETS tries hard in va&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2010],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67557"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68081,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67557\/revisions\/68081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}