Comment on Problems in Education

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:31:08 GMT

Did you just claim that g correlates well enough with two specific s to measure one s (ability to determine the answer expected by the writer of a test) and provide results for a different one (literacy) in the general sense?

Because my position is that most standardized tests measure a combination of the intended subject and the ability of the taker to figure out the test writer; part of this comes from my observed ability to consistently outperform people with an equal or better knowledge of the subject being tested on many different tests, and most of it comes from my ability to explicitly recognize the test author's thought patterns in determining which options were available in multiple choice tests and figure the correct answer to a large number of their questions by looking only at the possible answers.

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