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Re: Gre scores

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From: Wing-Keong Loke the consummate c...
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:46
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In article <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
>
>It has been my impression as well that the analytical score is widely
>ignored.  But I do wonder why that is so.  At least superficially it
>would seem to me that this score would come closest to measuring an
>important inate ability ie. to reason logically quickly and
>accurately, while the verbal test essentially only measures vocabulary
>which anybody can acquire by reading and the quantitative test doesn't
>touch on anything which any reasonably awake eighth grader even in an
>american high school wouldn't have learned regardless of talent.  Does
>anybody know ?
>
>        Carl Edman

	because the psychologists found that the score didn't correlate
well!  Just goes to show what common sense is worth.  Good too.  I bombed
the analytic section.
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From: wkl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Wing-Keong Loke                                               the consummate chronic prevaricator)
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