# Sarah Palin's SAT scores. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342 "2008-10-10T16:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342/41 "2008-10-11T10:30:10Z")
Thanks for explaining, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342/42 "2008-10-11T13:01:00Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > So you’re saying that the McCain campaign faked Sarah’s academic records? I came back to retract my previous thought on the person who faked this, and my new thoughts relate to this. There have been several instances in recent decades of a campaign sending out obviously fake bad info on their own candidate so that when the real info comes out, people will believe that it is faked as well. I now think this is disinformation. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342/43 "2008-10-11T13:06:22Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > I don’t like Sarah Palin at all. Most of her policy positions are diametrically opposed to mine, and I don’t think she’s remotely qualified for the office of Vice President. > > That said, even if this were accurate, and **Max Torque** has provided convincing evidence that it’s fraudulent, SATs measure how well you do on standardized tests and very little more. Concurrence here. I had great SAT scores (ending in 0’s); have achieved nothing in life. Some very smart people don’t do well on standardized tests. Anyway, I don’t think Palin is actually stupid; I think she, like GWB, has narrowed her view of the world and the way she thinks about it, in a way that dead-ends intellectual paths that lead too far away from her various agendas. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342/44 "2008-10-11T13:14:50Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I came back to retract my previous thought on the person who faked this, and my new thoughts relate to this. There have been several instances in recent decades of a campaign sending out obviously fake bad info on their own candidate so that when the real info comes out, people will believe that it is faked as well. > > I now think this is disinformation. Sure as Hell wouldn’t put it past Rove. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342/45 "2008-10-13T03:56:03Z")
Ha! This is too funny. I got cited at [Daily Kos](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/11/71941/717/207/627300) as the one who “cracked the case”. Neat! A few people asked how I found it, and the story really couldn’t be any more mundane. Basically, the score sheet looked fake to me, so I did a Google image search for “SAT results” to see if they even got the general look of the score sheet correct. On the first page of results was the image from Dawn Eden’s blog, posted in 2004; as I recall, it was the only actual image of an SAT score sheet that turned up from the search, so I went right to it. And when I pulled it up, it was pretty obviously the very same sheet that had been altered. So, not exactly a power-sleuth move on my part; the hoaxer was just so dumb that he used the most-easily-located SAT score sheet image on the web. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342/46 "2008-10-13T03:59:54Z")
Good Job master net sleuth! You make up proud! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342/48 "2010-10-24T23:43:48Z")
Because this thread was initiated due to Palin’s SAT scores, made known two years ago, I’m going to close this thread as potentially confusing due to its title. Anyone who wants to continue the discussion is welcome to start a new thread, “Sarah Palin’s SAT Score Discussion Redux”, or whatever. **Spectre of Pithecanthropus** MPSIMS Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-sat-scores/467342.md?page=2)