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lern_too_spelyesterday at 10:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

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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consensus1yesterday at 11:41 PM

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_boitoday at 12:31 AM

> 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.

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