1. UW
Update 1/19/15
a. Drove
back from Rockaway Beach with family. Read physics, slept.
b. Arrived
at dorm. Did some cleaning, then read for cow class. Sent some emails.
c. Ate
dinner with Ayush; figured out what professors we would interview for research
class. Used my dining-card surplus to order extra meat and cheese on pasta
& chicken; it was very good.
d. Returned
to dorm and did tutorial hw.
e. Planned
to play badminton, but the IMA was closed, so I took a run instead. Went along
the Burke-Gilman trail for a while.
f. Returned
to the dorm, grabbed a chocolate milk from the Husky Card-accepting vending
machine, took a shower, settled down to read for education class. Got derailed
researching correlation between SAT and IQ—most recent research indicates this
correlation is pretty strong, however IQ is only an OK predictor of standard
measurements of life outcomes—weighting it with personality characteristics and
HS grades provides a better correlation, according to both articles and the
education book I’m reading. However, if the correlation between the SAT and IQ
is strong, the question to answer is why low-income people that have received
poor education flounder on the SAT. One guy argues that their IQs are
genetically lower, but this doesn’t seem that compelling, given that the SAT is
so strongly based on learned cultural things like proper use of standard American
English. Is IQ a learned cultural thing? Or are correlations lousy on the low
end of SAT scores? Articles raised more questions than answers. Found article
arguing that IQ was a vector, consisting of verbal (like metaphor, maybe) and
performance (working memory, flops, etc) components, and that imbalances in
these components characterized autism (performance >> verbal) and ADHD
(verbal >> performance). Not sure how this would fit with System 1/System
2. Found a weird, but extremely cited paper where the IQ equation seemed to
negatively weight the verbal section of the SAT—need to figure out whether I’m
interpreting the equation correctly.
g.
Brushed my teeth and hit the hay. (Better way to
conclude this??)
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