[nitpick]
The SAT and the testing used to determine IQ are two completely different types of testing. As the testing is different, an SAT score does not directly correlate to an Wechsler score. [/nitpick]
No, no. I’m sure fauxpas meant “extraterrestrially”. That would explain a lot, IMHO.
maybe he meant extra-strenuously…? …say it fast.
“extrenously” is a perfectly cromulent word.
I think he meant extraneously
I’ve done that a few times. Had to stop as it was messing up my keyboard.
Don’t waste your time; study something worthwhile.
Even a 1600 on an SAT is not indicative of a person’s “genius” status. And an extensive knowledge of trivia is not intelligence, either.
You people claim to “fight ignorance”?!?
It’s extra strengthedly!
Sheesh!
Off to IMHO.
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Not to mention that you can’t get a 1367 on the SAT. It’s all multiples of 10.
by fauxpas
“the SAT is pretty easy if you study extrenously!!! My dad made me study a lot, and he scored me”
by Lamar Mundane
“It helps when your dad scores you, too.”
fauxpas is our President!!!
Girls, girls, you’re both pretty! {/Munch}
I know somebody who was in “Win Ben Stein’s Money”. He was much more relaxed and less affected than on camera but when the questions were coming, he was all business. He had no prompting or cue cards and seemed genuinely distressed when he missed a question.
Of course, he could have been pulling a Charles-Van-Doren style hoax, but that’s unlikely. I’ve seen him on political talk shows and seen some of the stuff he’s written. Pretty brilliant guy.
Interview from a couple of years ago at the Onion.
I used to watch quite regularly. It’s not that he gets so many answers correct, which any Doper watching can do, it’s that he gets the correct quicky and under pressure. Yeah, he is more used to it than the contestants, but the “being on” thing is pretty good.
Beuller? Beuller?
Sandy Hook got it right on the dot. I sometimes mistype my words…hence the “mistype”.
As long as we’re picking nits, shouldn’t it be “…a Wechsler score.”?
And there are different ways of assessing intelligence, some more suspect than others. Although the ability to coin new words on the fly is one my personal favorite indicators of intelligentsness. 
From the Onion interview linked above:
“You talkin’ to me?”
My take on Ben Stein:
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He’s a Nixon apologist. That tells me a lot about the level of his thought processes.
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He didn’t know that the Immaculate Conception was about Mary’s conception. Even questioning Jimmy about it afterwards. Sheesh. Ignoring his and mine area of specializations, I routinely do better than him.
[back in my day]
As for “odd” SAT scores. Now they are rounded to the nearest mult. of 10 but they didn’t used to be. I got a 799 on Math.
[/back in my day]
Ben Stein was my dorm monitor at UC Santa Cruz in 1972 (yeah, I am old, kiss my saggy ass). He is exactly the same now as he was then. Pompous, funny as hell, and smarter than all of us combined. Love him or hate him, but you gotta respect his accomplishments.
Apparently, “yourn area of specializations” isn’t grammar.
The Educational Testing Service also recalculated the mean test scores in 1996. Your 799 would easily qualify as a perfect score now. Not that it wasn’t fantastic to begin with.
One of the Watergate theories is that Ben Stein was Deepthroat, but I don’t follow it close enough to know how credible a theory it is.