Comment more on SATs (Score 1) 325
The SATs are actually renormed every 15-20 years or so... (the mean is reset to 100) It turns out that each generation is smarter than the last... Based on SAT scores alone, the grandparents of a current high school student would likely be considered "borderline mentally retarded" if their scores from ca. 1949 were compared to today's standards... see Science vol 283, march19 issue, pp1832-1834; http://www.sciencemag.org