re: #210 Naso Tang

I can still vividly remember seeing final exam questions as novel problems, regardless of how you think they weren’t.

It’s not that I ‘think’ they weren’t, I’m just using a very different definition of ‘novel’ than you are. You can see from my post above what I mean by novel.

Someone who scored 1300 is statistically more likely to get a PhD than someone who scores 1000.

Sure. But then you have to ask yourself why they got that score in the first place; obviously, SAT scores are not measuring native intelligence. So as far as assessing the test’s value as a measurement of natural ability, it’s obviously not a good one. And SAT scores are mainly a test of academic skills, so I really consider that saying that further academic achievement is ‘novel’ is a very broad use of the term.