NYT on the SAT -- then and now
West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more) 2025-09-25
The New York Times was very much at the forefront of this war in 2014, and as you can see, we were there taking extensive notes. Other than their getting the math wrong on the penalties for guessing/not guessing (as far as I know, that remains uncorrected to this day), they have pretty much come around to all the arguments we were making 11 years ago. This is nowhere better illustrated than in the first-person accounts they gave of two women’s memories of the SAT—one from 2014 annoyingly entitled, the other from 2024 incredibly inspiring.
This isn't a complete list of our SAT posts or even of our SAT/NYT posts, but it does give you a sense of what the discussion looked like.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
Sometimes, the SAT you read about in the news doesn't look much like the actual SAT
Monday, March 24, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
The SAT and the penalty for NOT guessing
Thursday, March 27, 2014
On SAT changes, The New York Times gets the effect right but the direction wrong
Thursday, May 15, 2014 The SAT probably is unfair to the disadvantaged but not for the reasons you've been hearing