Bleeding Green wrote:700?! Wow. KG seems like a pretty smart guy. Not that the SAT is any measure of intelligence but there is some correlation there I would think.
Interesting stuff here. I'd never heard of the lynching charge, either.
Keep in mind part of acing standardized tests is test taking skills which most of us know almost instinctively. Simple stuff like don't try to answer every question because you lose points for what you don't know. A bit more complicated stuff like how to play the odds (if you can narrow down to two choices you can take a risk), and more complex stuff (once you've done enough practice tests you'll notice certain patterns which will help you in different categories of questions).
Standardized tests also test a mode of thinking not just the ability to think. This is why for example we tend to do better on these tests than our grandparents did. For us the analogy dog is to mammal is natural because we're far more used to thinking in terms of what makes sense scientifically. Whereas our grandparents or great grandparents would be more likely to pick an analogy of say dog is to hunting or dog is to cat since they are more used to thinking in those terms. Whether or not a dog is a mammal or not would seem far more trivial to them.
