[ExI] gre

[William Flynn Wallace]

Well, after all, I did minor in statistics and psychometrics in grad school
and taught it for many years.  Unlike you, I have no idea how many people
overlook or don't know about this concept.  Why would they if they had not
taken stat?

bill w

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 6:49 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Subject:* [ExI] gre
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> >… correlations between GRE performance and graduate school performance
> are small (recent Science article), it does not mean that what is measure
> by the GRE is irrelevant….But people wanting to go to grad school are
> mostly pretty smart - restricted range.
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> bill w
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> Billw, you made my day.  There are far too few, tragically few, who
> understand restricted range effect.  People who do not understand how that
> works are surprised at how little correlation there is between pro football
> linebacker salary and weight.
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> spike
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