All right! Now we're in my bailywick. Bailywick is to candle as gaol is to Big Ben. Oh, those SAT verbal questions.
Bailiwick. OK, I never said I could spell.
Actually, as to the two-hemisphere test itself, where letters of the alphabet are presented to one or to both eyes, I would fail that one miserably. I have to cheat at the eye doctor's exam (I've memorized the fact that the first letter is E, hee hee.)
About SAT scores, my best friend in college had perfect SATs -- 800 in mathematics and 800 in verbal. He didn't get into the college of his choice (Swarthmore) because of the then-prevalent quota system against Jews.
There is a movement afoot to make drastic changes in the SATs, calling for a three section test (Readin', Riting' and 'Rithmetic), including an essay. The new exam will supposedly test what you learned in school instead of trying to determine scholastic "aptitude." BTW, the test has already dropped the name "Scholastic Aptitude Test" -- now SAT does not stand for anything, it's just the name of ther test -- because of the difficulty in deciding what that could possibly mean and how it could possibly be tested.
Critics of the new plan fear that it will exacerbate differences in performance between good schools and bad and between rich ones and poor. But the test reformers say that would be good, since it would force bad schools to get better and even provide a curricular blueprint for doing so.
When this thread was first posted, I gave myself a little IQ test:
(1) Do you remember your password to read the N.Y. Times on line?
(2) How many days did it take, after you clicked on, "I forgot my password, please send it by email," before you thought to look for the reply in your spam folder?
Mathman
