[9YearLurker]

That’s ridiculous. If you worked in finance, high tech, the sciences, or some other field where IQ really matters—which I’m guessing you don’t—you’d well know the correlation between such scores and intelligence.

Doesn’t mean people can’t and don’t do very well in life with more limited intelligence. In some ways, at some levels, limited intelligence can make life easier.

But it’s silly to claim there’s not a correlation between intelligence and these tests, and that for a number of situations high intelligence really matters.

[central_va]

 

Estimate your IQ, using your SAT scoreStraight talk on it.

 For all SAT conversions, the chart below seems to work better than any other method. Two well known data points fit it - for George W. Bush and Al Gore (their details below the chart).

SAT I V+M	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile		SAT I V+M	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile
1600	152.18	155.65	99.975		1010	109.46	110.09	73.587
1590	151.45	154.88	99.970		1000	108.74	109.32	71.985
1580	150.73	154.11	99.964		990	108.01	108.55	70.338
1570	150.00	153.34	99.957		980	107.29	107.77	68.647
1560	149.28	152.57	99.949		970	106.56	107.00	66.916
1550	148.56	151.79	99.940		960	105.84	106.23	65.149
1540	147.83	151.02	99.929		950	105.12	105.46	63.347
1530	147.11	150.25	99.916		940	104.39	104.68	61.516
1520	146.38	149.48	99.901		930	103.67	103.91	59.659
1510	145.66	148.70	99.883		920	102.94	103.14	57.780
1500	144.94	147.93	99.863		910	102.22	102.37	55.883
1490	144.21	147.16	99.840		900	101.50	101.60	53.972
1480	143.49	146.39	99.813		890	100.77	100.82	52.052
1470	142.76	145.61	99.782		880	100.05	100.05	50.128
1460	142.04	144.84	99.747		870	99.32	99.28	48.203
1450	141.32	144.07	99.706		860	98.60	98.51	46.282
1440	140.59	143.30	99.660		850	97.88	97.73	44.370
1430	139.87	142.53	99.607		840	97.15	96.96	42.471
1420	139.14	141.75	99.547		830	96.43	96.19	40.589
1410	138.42	140.98	99.479		820	95.70	95.42	38.729
1400	137.70	140.21	99.402		810	94.98	94.65	36.894
1390	136.97	139.44	99.315		800	94.26	93.87	35.088
1380	136.25	138.66	99.217		790	93.53	93.10	33.316
1370	135.52	137.89	99.106		780	92.81	92.33	31.580
1360	134.80	137.12	98.983		770	92.08	91.56	29.884
1350	134.08	136.35	98.845		760	91.36	90.78	28.231
1340	133.35	135.58	98.691		750	90.64	90.01	26.623
1330	132.63	134.80	98.519		740	89.91	89.24	25.062
1320	131.90	134.03	98.329		730	89.19	88.47	23.552
1310	131.18	133.26	98.118		720	88.46	87.69	22.093
1300	130.46	132.49	97.884		710	87.74	86.92	20.687
1290	129.73	131.71	97.627		700	87.02	86.15	19.335
1280	129.01	130.94	97.344		690	86.29	85.38	18.039
1270	128.28	130.17	97.033		680	85.57	84.61	16.799
1260	127.56	129.40	96.692		670	84.84	83.83	15.615
1250	126.84	128.63	96.320		660	84.12	83.06	14.488
1240	126.11	127.85	95.914		650	83.40	82.29	13.416
1230	125.39	127.08	95.473		640	82.67	81.52	12.400
1220	124.66	126.31	94.994		630	81.95	80.74	11.440
1210	123.94	125.54	94.476		620	81.22	79.97	10.533
1200	123.22	124.76	93.916		610	80.50	79.20	9.680
1190	122.49	123.99	93.312		600	79.78	78.43	8.879
1180	121.77	123.22	92.664		590	79.05	77.66	8.128
1170	121.04	122.45	91.968		580	78.33	76.88	7.426
1160	120.32	121.67	91.224		570	77.60	76.11	6.771
1150	119.60	120.90	90.429		560	76.88	75.34	6.162
1140	118.87	120.13	89.583		550	76.16	74.57	5.596
1130	118.15	119.36	88.683		540	75.43	73.79	5.072
1120	117.42	118.59	87.730		530	74.71	73.02	4.589
1110	116.70	117.81	86.722		520	73.98	72.25	4.142
1100	115.98	117.04	85.658		510	73.26	71.48	3.732
1090	115.25	116.27	84.538		500	72.54	70.71	3.356
1080	114.53	115.50	83.361		490	71.81	69.93	3.011
1070	113.80	114.72	82.128		480	71.09	69.16	2.696
1060	113.08	113.95	80.840		470	70.36	68.39	2.409
1050	112.36	113.18	79.495		460	69.64	67.62	2.149
1040	111.63	112.41	78.097		450	68.92	66.84	1.912
1030	110.91	111.64	76.645		440	68.19	66.07	1.698
1020	110.18	110.86	75.141		430	67.47	65.30	1.505