SAT score is known to be predictive of college grades. Is it also predictive for whether a mid-to-late career candidate will pass a phone screen? It is used for early career candidate filtering in finance, but I have not heard of anybody caring beyond that because of the availability of signal on the actual tasks they will be performing.

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consensus1 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is correlated tightly with IQ, so yes it will likely be a strong predictive signal for passing a phone screen.

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cute_boi 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe Maths, but english is probably not correlated tightly with IQ as it is more affected by language background and education.

	▲	gruez 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>english is probably not correlated tightly with IQ as it is more affected by language background and education. No, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) English and math has a 0.64 correlation.
	▲	Maxatar 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I feel like it's a common misconception that IQ only tests some narrow intellectual abilities like math and logic, likely because online tests and fake IQ tests tend to focus on those kinds of puzzles. Actual IQ tests actually do place heavy emphasis on language skills like vocabulary, verbal abstraction and comprehension.

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cute_boi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Is it also predictive for whether a mid-to-late career candidate will pass a phone screen?

The answer is probably no. I got many friend they got good marks in SAT, but they were average.

	▲	jimbokun an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Would you include the ability to differentiate between anecdotes and peer reviewed studies in your assessment of intelligence?