• 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]
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    8 months ago

    Two points:

    1. IQ is a bad measurement in the first place.
    2. Have they considered less people taking the ACT? Many people don’t have any reason to take it. Do the SAT for comparison.
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      8 months ago

      ACT is not an IQ test though. IQ tests test logic, reasoning, and other metrics. The ACT is a strictly educational test with only minor reasoning portions.

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          8 months ago

          Not many, and mostly those who view the test highly and prepare for it, as it costs a lot of money. There were more students that took it in 2022 as opposed to 2021 (36% vs 35%), but this is down nearly 12% from 2012 when 48% of students took it.

          This is not an issue of applicant pool dilution.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      IQ measurement has lots of well known problems, but it does provide a baseline. If people are having more difficulty doing the same kind of reasoning before and after covid, that’s not a good sign. Meanwhile, the performance is out of students who took the test, it’s not measuring whether more or less people took it. I guess we’ll see if this is also reflected in SAT tests.

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    8 months ago

    I hope it’s not true. I don’t know if I had COVID or not but If I Iose about 10 points in IQ then that’s a big L. I don’t wanna be academically mediocre

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      I’ve had a few uni professors complain about it. COVID really does a number on your brain long term, but the only common effect is difficulty recalling certain things.

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      8 months ago

      It seems to be for severe cases. I may have had COVID myself, and I hope my brain fog is an aspect of my Autism/ADHD and something that can be fixed after I recover from Autistic burnout.