SATs

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:02:34 +1000


At 04:06 AM 12/10/96 -0500, Lyle wrote about Eliezer:

>(As long as we're bragging about SATs, my scores were 721 verbal,
>793 mathematical. A few weeks ago people were posting their ages;
>it would be interesting to post SATs as well.)

For the benefit of people outside the United States, for whom these grading
arcana are entirely opaque, could someone please briefly explain what SATs
are [scholastic aptitudes tests?], and the range of scores?

Lyle is surely correct about memes, which seem to me a bit like streams -
easier to map after the water has flowed down through, as well as cutting
into, the vagaries of the landscape.

Damien Broderick