Not just WEIRD: US-only. That might be an American thing, not just a Western thing.
And it could be an SAT thing, not an intelligence thing. If my understanding is correct SATs reward conscientiousness as much as (or more than) intelligence. Conscientiousness being attributable for all of the difference to cooperation wouldn’t be at all implausible.
If my understanding is correct SATs reward conscientiousness as much as (or more than) intelligence.
I doubt it. The SAT is still closer to an IQ test than an achievement test. Conscientiousness helps a lot with GPA, but not SAT. I used to work as a SAT tutor, and it is amazing/depressing how little even strong effort affected test scores.
My impression is that the SATs measure some combination of reasoning ability and retention of knowledge: I can see the latter being correlated with conscientiousness, but there are other ways to get it. As best I can tell, in college admissions the combination of a high SAT score and middling grades is taken to indicate a low-conscientiousness student, which if correct isn’t what we’d expect if the SATs rewarded the two equally. If it’s not correct, I’m not sure what it’d be measuring instead.
And it could be an SAT thing, not an intelligence thing. If my understanding is correct SATs reward conscientiousness as much as (or more than) intelligence. Conscientiousness being attributable for all of the difference to cooperation wouldn’t be at all implausible.
I doubt it. The SAT is still closer to an IQ test than an achievement test. Conscientiousness helps a lot with GPA, but not SAT. I used to work as a SAT tutor, and it is amazing/depressing how little even strong effort affected test scores.
My impression is that the SATs measure some combination of reasoning ability and retention of knowledge: I can see the latter being correlated with conscientiousness, but there are other ways to get it. As best I can tell, in college admissions the combination of a high SAT score and middling grades is taken to indicate a low-conscientiousness student, which if correct isn’t what we’d expect if the SATs rewarded the two equally. If it’s not correct, I’m not sure what it’d be measuring instead.