Comments on: GRE Scores and Political Correctness http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2008/11/08/gre-scores-and-political-correctness/ "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Myles White http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2008/11/08/gre-scores-and-political-correctness/comment-page-1/#comment-17502 John Myles White Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:29:28 +0000 http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/?p=3192#comment-17502 But of course it's genius. I routinely assume in my day to day life that the people who score below 1600 on the GRE are incapable of any abstract thought. Really, it's hard to imagine that a person whose GRE score is below 1400 can even see five inches in front of them, let alone interpret a scatterplot -- plainly the most complex of all graphs. Putting aside all facetiousness or flippancy, I think finding the proper interpretation of this correlation is just not that simple. It's especially difficult because looking back now at the quick statistical hack the graph represents makes me wonder even more strongly what it really means: after all, how can one score above 1600 on a test whose top score was 1600 when I took it? But of course it’s genius. I routinely assume in my day to day life that the people who score below 1600 on the GRE are incapable of any abstract thought. Really, it’s hard to imagine that a person whose GRE score is below 1400 can even see five inches in front of them, let alone interpret a scatterplot — plainly the most complex of all graphs.

Putting aside all facetiousness or flippancy, I think finding the proper interpretation of this correlation is just not that simple. It’s especially difficult because looking back now at the quick statistical hack the graph represents makes me wonder even more strongly what it really means: after all, how can one score above 1600 on a test whose top score was 1600 when I took it?

]]> By: somedude http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2008/11/08/gre-scores-and-political-correctness/comment-page-1/#comment-17501 somedude Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:49:12 +0000 http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/?p=3192#comment-17501 "You can figure out the implications of that statement for yourself." Clearly a clever ploy to make sure than only people who are not politically correct will be able to figure out what you are getting at. Politically correct people won't have the required GRE to interpret all those numbers and data points! Genius. “You can figure out the implications of that statement for yourself.”

Clearly a clever ploy to make sure than only people who are not politically correct will be able to figure out what you are getting at.

Politically correct people won’t have the required GRE to interpret all those numbers and data points!

Genius.

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