Oh HELL NO! Mediatakeout (the best Black gossip website in the world) got a hold of Palin's SAT

[wndycty]

I visit this site everyday. I don't post much from it on DU because they keep it real and raw. But I had to pass this one along. . .LOL

http://www.mediatakeout.com/2008/27277-lmao_sarah_palin_failed_the_sat_photographic_evidence_inside_.html



ON EDIT: GAWKER has it and GAWKER'S art director thinks its a fake: http://gawker.com/5061283/sarah-palins-high+school-grades?t=8243229#viewcomments

[Lucky 13]

1. Well that would explain why she had to go to 5 different college before finally graduating.

Idiot.

[CatBO]

27. I thought you basically got 800 just for showing up...

I had always heard there was a "minimum" SAT score basically, sign your name and get 800.

If that's the case... wowsers.

[TwilightGardener]

36. I think it was 600, just for signing your name.

[Realityhack]

115. Not at that time. It was 400

200 for each test. They added a third test.

And you can score lower than that. Each question wrong results in a subtraction from the score. This is to prevent guessing from being a successful tactic.

[central scrutinizer]

68. the minimum is 400 - 200 on each section

They are normed for a mean of 500 on each section and standard deviation of 100 with 200 (-3 standard deviations) being the lowest and 800 (+3 standard deviations) being the highest

[eppur_se_muova]

102. Originally, the average was 1000, with s.d. of 200.

(Actually 500 for each section, with s.d. of 100) Scores outside 3 sd were not reported; ie actual range was 200-800 for each section, so 400 was the minimum and 1000 the average.

[MgtPA]

106. I believe it's 200 for signing your name.

[Jack from Charlotte]

71. Wonder if anyone ever checked if she actually did graduate......

from whatever of the 5 colleges she attended?

I'd like someone to run a check on her whole resume.

[Lucky 13]

97. I imagine you'd hit brick walls at every turn.

I'm sure they've gone through and silenced everyone able to verify or disprove anything.

But it's worth a shot... and fuck, I don't have anything better to do. Who has a copy of her resume?

[roguevalley]

118. better than her son. he couldn't get into college because the 2.0 was too high

[Thrill]

2. LOL

[KingFlorez]

3. It doesn't surprise me at all

Every time she opens her mouth, she proves she's a idiot, this is just more confirmation.

[demo dutch]

4. NO surprise there!!!

[yardwork]

5. She also got a D in foreign language - no surprise.

[Fly by night]

96. You are correct. (Brings back days of reading 1,000s of applications for Vandebilt, ...

... first as a student member of the admissions committee and then as a staffer for three years. Lordy, that was eons ago (early 70s).

[TwilightGardener]

6. Oh my God, she's so insanely mediocre. Her fame and fortune is 100% her face. This proves it.

[onetwo]

Umm, that is far from mediocrity. That's the D- of SAT scores.

[TwilightGardener]

34. LOL! I was trying to be kind, in case some DUers had scores that low.

[ecstatic]

107. ..

If so, wouldn't their posts have a freeper-like delivery? I doubt they'd last very long on the site, even if their intentions were pure.

[smoogatz]

117. I'm guessing you could pretty much guess who was a DUer and who was

a freeptard based on SAT scores alone. In fact, I'm guessing the electorate pretty much divides that way, too. Go ahead, call me an elitist!

[speedoo]

7. Love it!! nt

[DeepBlueC]

8. OMG...a moran!

Who would have thought.... :sarcasm:

[yardwork]

Wow. 28th percentile in reading.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. She reads all of 'em...

:rofl:

[grannie4peace]

20. no wonder she couldn't tell katie about what she read. she cannot read!!!!

[TwilightGardener]

41. This child was left behind.

[JBoy]

49. LOL. In a snowbank.

[Hepburn]

37. Holy shit....

...that is just HORRIBLE.

Guess she is NOT smarter than a 5th grader! :wow:

[Tatiana]

9. Damn, she is stupid. n/t

[TheZug]

10. Problem is, all of her dumbass supporters who also failed will love her all the more.

[TheCoxwain]

11. Was she a Wasilla resident as a high schooler? .. can this be verified?

[soccermomforobama]

30. I believe she did go to Wasilla High

because when she did the interviews with Charles Gibson they toured Wasilla High and he saw her trophy from her basketball days in the trophy case. That is also where he asked her about the Troopergate scandal.

[Hokie]

50. Yes, she attended HS there

Yes, born in Idaho but she attended Wassila HS.

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, located 44 miles (71 km) north of the city of Anchorage.<8> She was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school and the point guard and captain of the school's girls' basketball team. She helped the team win the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game, despite having an ankle stress fracture. She earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play.<9[/div>

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. I can't believe she got a D in foreign language

Every time I hear her speak, she seems fluent in foreign language.

[tosh]

51. Tongues. Not foreign language but tongues, ROFL!!

[tekisui]

13. I knew I was smarter than her!

[Jack from Charlotte]

75. Your average handball is smarter than her. (nfm)

*

[Muttocracy]

14. Wonder if it's real - either way - check out those self-reported grades... nt

[volstork]

15. Oh, SNAP!

Good investigative work, MediaTakeOut!

[grannie4peace]

17. this is the coolest post i've seen today!!!!!!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

18. C in Social Studies. Yep, she's ready for civic duty.

[livetohike]

19. Just as we expected - nothing in her brain cavity

How can one do so poorly at a small high school?? She took the "general" program. Not academic? I'm surprised she was accepted into any college, let alone accepted as a transfer.

[Juche]

21. You can roughly estimate IQ from SAT and GRE scores

Know what an SAT score of 841 correlates to? An IQ of roughly 90.

http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/oldSATIQ.aspx

[lisa58]

78. Thanks for that link - my nephew just took his first SAT last weekend...

...and it will be interesting to see if his score reflects his IQ (he is a genius, of course).

[eshfemme]

119. Weird... I've never taken a legitimate IQ test but

my SAT score seems to suggest that I have a higher IQ than I think I should have... :P

And the IQ of 90... wasn't that Forrest Gump's IQ? That essentially makes Sarah Palin a feminine and detestable version of Forrest Gump, doesn't it? And ironically, Tom Hanks is an Obama supporter!

[CatBO]

22. My God - I was a lax student but this is BAD!

I hated school and slacked off tremendously. Even I got an 1160 on my SAT's (and I'm not particularly proud of it, I was hoping for higher).

She's gotta have an IQ below 100.

[votetastic]

23. Look at the self-reported grades

Mostly C's and D's.. "self-reported", so you know they're probably much worse.

[ErinBerin84]

24. not surprising.

And it wouldn't even make a difference if you know, there was any evidence that Palin's scholarly pursuits or intellectual curiosity had improved over the years...just like the current newsweek article says, she celebrates this mediocrity and does not have a desire to rise above it. Great message to kids, huh.

[NatBurner]

25. GPA: 2.2?

God help us all

[SuperTrouper]

44. LOL!! Compared to her George W. Bush is Einstein!!!

:rofl:

[Libby2]

86. ohmygod......roflmao

[yardwork]

55. To me, this is the worst part. Anybody can have a bad day on the SATs

but to get such poor grades at a rural high school...not good. How does one get a D in high school foreign language? I can understand getting a D in Physics. I can even understand getting a D in algebra. But a D in foreign language? And a C in social studies? That's not easy.

[ej510]

82. I feel you bruh!

[seabeyond]

i saw this on another thread. no one talked gpa. huge wtf 2.2/ i hear ya. n/t

[Kablooie]

26. Trouble is her supporters admire these grades as stellar compared to their own.

[liberal N proud]

28. Makes her more like bu$h and McCain

Always at the bottom of the class

[skipos]

29. Is this BS?

The woman is so slow, it is hard to tell.

[TornadoTN]

31. Amazing, but not really surprising

After all, this is the woman that drifted from college to college (5 of them) before one of them would award her a degree.

I'm sure she used funds that could have otherwise been spent on worthy students as well. Just another reason to despise this woman.

[scheming daemons]

32. Is there any way to prove that this is real? How did they get ahold of it?

[fed_up_mother]

33. Are we sure this is for real? Can't wait to send out!

[slick8790]

35. Am I the only one who is uncertain as to whether this is real or not? n/t

[onefreespiritedchick]

98. I only wish it were real. n/t

[xxqqqzme]

38. Yet another 'C' student!

Hasn't the current 'average' slacker demonstrated this country requires someone w/ the ability to think.

[Joanne98]

39. LOL

[redstate_democrat]

40. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!

:rofl:

[fed_up_mother]

42. So, who's going to post this over at Free Republic? hahahaha

[KSDiva]

72. If someone posts it they HAVE to report back

with the Freeper meltdown!

[gravity]

81. They will praise her authenticity

She is just like one of them

[yardwork]

76. The freeps won't understand it. Most of them never went to high school and never took the SATs.

With freeps, you're looking at people who dropped out in the 6th grade, after taking it twice.

[npincus]

43. HOLY SHIT!!! This is GOLD.

:rofl:

Quick.. send to Huffpo!!

[mindfulNJ]

45. omfg

Is this for real?????

[msallied]

46. While entertaining, I question the document's legitimacy.

Aren't SATs rounded up to the nearest 10? I thought all scores ended in zero... I could be wrong. NOT that I think she would have scored higher than this. I just don't wanna trust this quite yet.

[leftist.]

47. WOW has this been around before or is this new to everyone?

This is insane.

[TwilightGardener]

54. Doesn't matter--spread it around. Fight dirty.

[msallied]

57. LOL. Exactly. Defending Sarah Palin's intelligence made me feel a little oogy just now.

:)

[npincus]

58. It must be new.

[dbmk]

48. Not to question Sarah Palins stupidity

But is an SAT the end all be all?

Afaik, Paul Wellstone, a hero of many here, scored under 800.

I have always taken exception to intelligence scoring.

[yardwork]

52. It's true, but her grades aren't that hot either.

[dbmk]

59. No, certainly in this case it reaffirms what we are all seeing.

Just a little too many people here shouting "stupid" based on test scores alone. But thats probably based on the entire picture.

We might well have a few people here with lower scores that does not deserve such a label, though.

[yardwork]

69. I agree. Scores are meaningless without context. Some people don't test well.

The SAT is not an IQ test. It tests a certain kind of knowledge and its known to be culturally biased. Also, anybody can have a bad day while taking a test. But the grades are shockingly low for somebody now in position to be president, especially in such a time of crisis.

[maxsolomon]

104. culturally biased FOR white people

idaho + alaska = whitey mcwhiterson.

there are other kinds of intelligence. narcissism is a kind of intelligence, isn't it?

[TwilightGardener]

62. A test score doesn't that mean much UNLESS it confirms what you already know

about the person--we know she's stupid, this confirms it.

[dbmk]

64. Agreed and I just said as much in the reply above :)

[specialed]

53. Is this real?

Holy crap thats dumb.

My sister who spent her entire time in HS drinking and partying did better than this. Not much but still better than this.

[npincus]

56. and her GPA sucks, too!!! 2.2 = C+ student?

[bullwinkle428]

60. Oh, SWEET...I don't feel nearly as bad about my 1190, which has haunted me for years!

She obviously took the exact same test as I did, as we are the same age and graduated H.S. the same year - a true apples to apples comparison! :rofl:

I'd love to see the Freepers try to push the "Smartest Motherfuckers in the Room" theory NOW that we've got the goods on their Queen Bee...

[tclambert]

90. And McCain graduated 394th out of 399

[Crowman1979]

91. That's the same on how I feel about my 1100 on the SATs!

It definitely screwed my chances of going to Michigan State. But damn! She did worse in English than I did! 490 in English and 610 in Math.

[npincus]

61. I just sent to Arianna... this is f*cking GOLD.

:rofl:

[City Lights]

63. If that's real, a portion of her SSN is now public, and it's the portion ususally x'd out. nt

[TwilightGardener]

65. It's the last four digits that matter, I think.

In the military, for ID purposes, you use the last four.

[City Lights]

84. In my experience, it's the last four that are most visible to the public.

For example, I was in my cell phone store buying a new phone, and saw my account information on the screen. My SSN appeared as XXX-XX-nnnn, so the last four digits of my SSN were visible to anyone within eye-shot of that screen. Kinda like credit card receipts, where the last four digits are the only ones not X'd out.

[brendan120678]

80. Here's why I think it could be fake...

Her SSN in the document starts with 574.

If she had been born and registered for a SSN in Alaska, that's what it would start with.

However, since she was born in Idaho and probably was registered there for her SSN, it should start with 518 or 519.

I suppose her parents could have waited until they moved to Alaska to register - how old was she when they moved?

[City Lights]

87. According to Wiki, they moved to Alaska when she was an infant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

[brendan120678]

95. OK...so they could have waited, I guess.

I'm not sure when it started to become standard practice to register for SSN's immedietly at birth. I know that my parents did that for me - and I was born in 1978.

However, my parents were not registered until they were toddlers almost - and they were born in 1953 & 1954.

[Spike89]

112. Actually, lots (maybe most) of waited to get SSN

I didn't get mine until high school (in the mid-1970s) and I recall lots of my friends talking about needing to get theirs...it was pretty much useless until you were looking for a job.

[occe]

66. WOW nt

[scarface2004]

67. how many voters are in the 39th percentile?

as long as its not enough to win 270 ev we win!!

[yardwork]

73. Considering that the 50th percentile is the middle...well....

[renie408]

70. Jesus Christ. She had a 2.2 average. That is just sad. n/t

[volstork]

74. "English best language?" "Yes"

you sure about that?

[yardwork]

77. Best is a relative term. Check out her grade for foreign language.

[sailor65]

79. That's a fake

my SAT report from the same time period lists my ethnicity as "Caucasian"

[crazylikafox]

85. damn. well, that was fun while it lasted

[Blasphemer]

89. I figured

I'm sure the McCain campaign has put a lockdown on access to her records. A good hoax though.

[trumad]

83. They have the high school code right

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/highschoolcode.html#AK

[Jennicut]

88. I did horrible on math and good on english, mine was somewhere in the upper 900's

She is stupider then me so I feel better. LOL!

[TheDonkey]

100. me too. I bombed my SATs, showed up hungover and with no prep work and got a 1010

so it was good enough lol, but Palin's is just a disaster. No wonder she went to 5 safety schools

[tclambert]

92. If you boast about Obama being a Magna cum Laude

graduate of Harvard Law School, you just invite charges of being an "elitist, ivory-tower snob." Still, I'd kinda like the smart people to run the country for once.

BTW, I think you can get 841 by guessing every answer. Once in awhile you gotta guess right.

Could be faked. They used impact printers back then. Printed lines were never very straight, always had some up and down to them.

[Arugula Latte]

93. High SAT scores are ELITIST.

Ignorance is for real Amurikins. Sheesh.

[bkcc]

103. So's that fancy book learnin'.

Don't read! Wait for the movie! Unless it's the Bible.

[AlCzervik]

94. Is that a gentleman's D or D-?

[Greyskye]

99. Gawkers arguments for it being fake are pretty compelling

He's convinced me that it's fake, unless better arguments for its authenticity can be made. :(
http://gawker.com/5061283/sarah-palins-high+school-grades?t=8243229#c8243229

[Matariki]

101. Wow, she literally IS one of the 29%ers

sheesh, that's pathetic.

[WindRiverMan]

105. Damn she's dumb as a box of rocks!

Those are piss poor scores. Most of the kids playing college football have better scores than these. You get four hundred for signing your name to the damn thing.

[npincus]

108. you've insulted those rocks!

[traveller]

109. Too much evidence pointing to this as a fake.

[SallyMander]

110. ***Pretty convincing argument that this is fake***

See here: http://gawker.com/5061283/sarah-palins-high+school-grades?t=8243229#viewcomments

[PuppyBismark]

120. It's a Fake, no question.

I've been working with computers since 1963 and I completely agree with the analysis of the printing of the scores. It's a great idea, but clearly a fake.

[pink-o]

111. Okay....I can't stand her, but I think I only got about a 900 on my SAT....

And that was with a pretty damn good score on the English portion!

I was 18 when I took the test in 1973, a senior in high school with absolutely no respect for the "Establishment" (as The System was called back then) or any authority figure who tried to tell me what to do. I was angry at the "older generation" for their lies and hypocricy, so I squeaked by with the minimum in school. I was pissed off, argumentative and sarcastic to anyone over 30, so there weren't too many teachers inclined to give me grades above "C's" and "D's". Consequently, I didn't get into any university, wasted 6 months at community college, then took off for Europe where I lived till I was 23. Europe, the place where I received my real education!

Now, I know that Palin's choices were hella different from mine. I'm only pointing out you can't judge someone's intelligence by SATs or High School report cards--especially if they're over the age of 40. I still only have a high school diploma and a trade certificate in Travel and Tourism, as well as an average IQ somewhere around the range of 115. But I feel I can hold my own with anyone on most subjects. So please--I'm happy to dis Palin on her mediocrity, her unquestioning belief in Pentecostal fairy tales, her stupid beauty pagent answers to serious questions--and that's plenty to nail her with!

[Drunken Irishman]

113. OMG! LOOK AT THE LOGO ON THE TOP-RIGHT! SHE'S ACORN!

ACORN, FOX!!! ACORN!

[apnu]

114. Republicans don't want smart women, they want pretty ones

This is why Palin is perfect for them. Pretty and dumb, meaning easy on the eyes and easy to control. An old, white, raisin's wet dream. (Sorry Whoopie Goldberg, I had to steal that)

[smoogatz]

116. Man, look at those percentiles: in the 30s.

As in bottom third of those taking the test, or close to it. That's not mediocrity, it's genuine stupidity!

[GoesTo11]

121. She is not NCAA eligible

With her 2.2 GPA, she would have needed to score 100 points higher (940) to be eligible - that's according to current standards.

She is 100 points less qualified than the least qualified college athlete.

But there's no eligibility requirement for VP.

[Liberalboy]

122. The SSN is a fake....

she was born in Idaho, and the first three digits are designated for Alaska

[Connonym]

123. not necessarily

Social security numbers are based on where you live when you get your social security number. Today people get social security numbers right away for kids because they need it for tax reasons but this was not always the case. I'm just a couple years younger than Palin and I was about 10 when I finally got a social security number. In fact, my parents applied for all 5 of us kids at the same time. Four of us were born in Iowa and 1 in Illinois. Strangely, out of the 5 of us I'm the only one with a different first 3 numbers even though I was born in the same state as 3 other siblings and we all applied from the state of Illinois at the same time.

[autorank]

124. McCain brags about an 800 SAT. The test was adjusted down 100 points since then.

So, if this her SAT (and it should be close even if it isn't;), then her real score is:

741