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  3. From: wkl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Wing-Keong Loke                                               the consummate chronic prevaricator)
  4. Subject: Re: Gre scores
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.214613.11388@ra.msstate.edu>
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  8. Organization: Mississippi State University
  9. References: <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu>
  10. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:46:13 GMT
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  13. In article <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
  14. >
  15. >It has been my impression as well that the analytical score is widely
  16. >ignored.  But I do wonder why that is so.  At least superficially it
  17. >would seem to me that this score would come closest to measuring an
  18. >important inate ability ie. to reason logically quickly and
  19. >accurately, while the verbal test essentially only measures vocabulary
  20. >which anybody can acquire by reading and the quantitative test doesn't
  21. >touch on anything which any reasonably awake eighth grader even in an
  22. >american high school wouldn't have learned regardless of talent.  Does
  23. >anybody know ?
  24. >
  25. >        Carl Edman
  26.  
  27.     because the psychologists found that the score didn't correlate
  28. well!  Just goes to show what common sense is worth.  Good too.  I bombed
  29. the analytic section.
  30.  
  31.