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There’s a beautiful paper about converting the ACT to the Generation Y SAT (taken April 1995 to March 2016). Apparently there was a massive sample of people who took book the ACT and Generation Y SAT making it possible to equate scores of equal percentile rank within this group that took both tests. The results are as follows:
Once you know the SAT equivalent of your ACT, you can convert the SAT score into an IQ equivalent using this little formula I made:
IQ equivalent = 23.835 + 0.081(SAT) (U.S. norms)
What’s strange is that ACT.org has a chart converting ACT to SATs in 2018
If you use this chart, you can convert SAT to IQ using the formula I created for Generation Z SAT scores (taken after March 2016):
IQ = 26 + 0.07(Combined SAT)
So let’s say you’re a genius who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. If you convert to Generation Y SAT scores you get 1600 which converts to IQ 153 using the Generation Y formula.
But if you convert to Generation Z SAT scores, you get 1590 which equates to IQ 137! That’s a difference of 16 points for the same ACT score.
My guess is that by eliminating all the hardest questions from the SAT so that generation Z could have a safe space and so political correctness could be maintained, the equipercentile equating with ACT scores went awry at the high end. Until further research can clarify this issue, I strongly recommend using the Generation Y conversions, even if you’re in Generation Z.
Pumpkin Person 
Chris Matthews: Nikki Haley didn’t rise to the occasion in New Hampshire (youtube.com)
Wow chris is looking really old now. He must have aged 20 years since he left the job. He called Haley a robot which is totally correct. She’s so fake and evil and a puppet for you know who.
This is not a purposeful slight to Name even if he annoys me, but literally something I noticed: South Asians are pretty huge fakers in politics in the US. Nikki, Vivek, and especially Kamala Harris. Or Dinesh D’Souza. They are like the cariacture of what people say Jews are, oozing with intellectual-tinged lawyerly manipulation. This may just represent a specific type of upwardly-mobile South Asian immigrant.
Kamala Harris must be the worst VP since Dan Quayle. Maybe even dumber than Palin.
Yeah….sadly we are the best at putting our worst foot forward.
Pumpkin, I think a better way to gauge the difficulty of the new SAT would be to compare old SAT percentiles and new SAT percentiles since the inflation of scores is more pronounced at the lower end (i.e., an ACT score of 20 is equivalent to a 950 on the old SAT vs. a 1040 on the new SAT).
By the way, you need to estimate the IQ of Tom Lehrer. He went to Harvard at 15 and earned a B.A. in mathematics, somewhat analogous to the fact that I’m currently pursuing a B.S. in mathematics (and having a tough time doing so, lol).
*which is somewhat analogous*
Oops. Grammatical error.