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...achievement test. The SAT IIs are a battery of achievement tests the College Board offers in 18 subjects, including physics and Korean. Aptitude tests are harder to define. Many people seem to think of aptitude exams in general--and the old (or current) SAT in particular--as IQ tests, a notion subtly promulgated by Nicholas Lemann, the new dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, in his influential anti-SAT book, The Big Test (1999). Writing about early versions of the SAT, Lemann points out that "the bulk of the test was devoted to word familiarity, the eternal staple...
...gives the best results. Yet for decades most schools wouldn't consider special education for a child until he or she had fallen at least a year behind. That may be changing. Congress is considering legislation that would eliminate the need to show a discrepancy between a child's IQ and his or her achievements before receiving a diagnosis of dyslexia...
...want you to drill the little n_____ in the head." Meanwhile the team's slugger was Reggie Jackson, an emerging black superstar who the previous year had hit four home runs in the World Series with four successive swings of his bat. The irrepressible Jackson, who had an IQ of 160 and quoted Frost fluently from behind his mirror shades, is the book's hilarious, hyperverbal hero. He once baffled a reporter with this spitball of a question: "If my team loses a big one, and I strike out with the winning runs on base, are you aware that...
...only test for steroids, and not for other common performance-enhancing drugs. They are thus essentially useless. As Gary Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s medical research committee, noted “[baseball’s new testing procedure is] more of an IQ test than a steroid test, because you have to be really dumb to fail...
...young children. High levels of environmental lead have long been considered dangerous, but researchers now find that even low levels of lead in the blood--levels well below what used to be deemed safe by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)--are associated with dramatic drops in IQ in young children. A study that tested children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years found that those with a blood-lead level of 10 mcg per deciliter (the CDC's current safety threshold) had, on average, a 7.4-points-lower IQ than children with...