The SAT in-contrast is kind of useful anyways, because kind of everyone saturates on practicing for the SAT, at least in the US, but that test sadly also maxes out at an average that is below the average IQ test result in the LessWrong community
Am I correct in interpreting this as you implying that the average member of the LessWrong community got perfect SAT scores (or would have had they taken it)?
This is an odd response from me, but, recently for my birthday, I posted a survey for my friends to fill out about me, anonymously rating me on lots of different attributes.
I included some spicier/fun questions, one of which was whether they thought they were smarter than me or not.
Here were the results for that question:
It was roughly 50⁄50 throughout the entire time data came in over the two days.
The vast majority of people responding said that they’d read the sequences (either “some” or “yes”). I’d guess that basically everyone had except my family.
So, this is some evidence that I am of median IQ amongst a large group of people who have read the sequences.
Something pretty close to that. We included SAT scores in one of the surveys from a long time ago. IIRC the median score was pretty close to perfect, of the people who gave their results, but I might be misremembering.
Getting a perfect SAT does sure actually look harder than I thought (I don’t have that much experience with the SAT, I had to take it when I applied to U.S. universities but I only really thought about it for the 3-6 month period in which I was applying).
Am I correct in interpreting this as you implying that the average member of the LessWrong community got perfect SAT scores (or would have had they taken it)?
This is an odd response from me, but, recently for my birthday, I posted a survey for my friends to fill out about me, anonymously rating me on lots of different attributes.
I included some spicier/fun questions, one of which was whether they thought they were smarter than me or not.
Here were the results for that question:
It was roughly 50⁄50 throughout the entire time data came in over the two days.
The vast majority of people responding said that they’d read the sequences (either “some” or “yes”). I’d guess that basically everyone had except my family.
So, this is some evidence that I am of median IQ amongst a large group of people who have read the sequences.
Also, I got a perfect SAT score.
Something pretty close to that. We included SAT scores in one of the surveys from a long time ago. IIRC the median score was pretty close to perfect, of the people who gave their results, but I might be misremembering.
Only like 10% are perfect scores. Median of 1490 on each of the two old LW surveys I just checked.
Thank you for checking!
Getting a perfect SAT does sure actually look harder than I thought (I don’t have that much experience with the SAT, I had to take it when I applied to U.S. universities but I only really thought about it for the 3-6 month period in which I was applying).
Interesting. I wonder how much selection bias there was in responses.