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Abstract: A mother bear need not be overly vicious. However, in times of provocation when her

cubs are threatened, she must respond. Yet even mother bears may fail their children. In suchtimes of strife a Papa Bear must be at the ready to take up the torch of his children and defend

them from the evils of the world. Today, my home was viciously and attacked absent reason or

prior molestation by Kathleen Digan, a Jersey-turned-New Yorker with the gall to: 1. menace me

with the following threat: im (sic) gonna (sic) come over to 18 and fight you dave (sic). im (sic)wearing pearls and heels today, both of which i (sic) will use as weapons. be (sic)ready; and 2.belittle the great state of Kansas by proclaiming, oh (sic) wow (sic) i (sic) didn't know they

taught grammar in kansas (sic) dave (sic)! As such, Papa Bear fights back the only way heknows how (that is, snide, passive aggressive comments that attack someone else without ever

addressing the original deficiency).

Introduction: Standardized testing, long bemoaned by liberals over concerns of fairness andother politically correct bullshit, can be specifically correlated to lifetime achievement and thus

used as a measure of an individuals worth to society. When the SAT data of Kansas and New

York are compared, we examine an extremely high probability of Kansas being infinitely more

valuable to society than some state that was the cock of the walk in the 19

th

century but now justreminds everyone of the 40-year-old plumber who once quarterbacked his high school to a state

championship and cant understand why hes not relevant anymore.

Facts: are stubborn things. Here are the facts regarding average SAT scores for New York and

Kansas:

State Category Score Category Score

Combined

Score

New York Reading 484 Math 499 983

Kansas Reading 590 Math 595 1185

The most immediate impact of these results is the effect on education, wherein high school

students from Kansas should have much greater control in choosing institutes of higher

education than their New York counterparts, ceteris paribus (socioeconomic conditions

obviously preclude this scenario, but at the Kansas Board of Regents has put together a muchmore impressive system than SUNY did.). The average Kansas High School student should

expect to be admitted into a better school and perform better academically going forward.

Note: at this point I discovered there was no potential path for spinning crime statistics. Both

pre- and post-recession, New York has consistently proven itself a safer state than Kansas. Albeit

issues of underreporting are likely greater in the City, as a whole over the past several years

New Yorkers are privileged to enjoy lower rates of both violent and nonviolent criminal activity.The rest of the memo contains notes intended for strike #3, as well as a recap and conclusion,

but my sadness over Kansans inability to discontinue banging on each other has left my

ambition level listless. To confirm my defeat, Ill admit that only about 5% of Kansans actually

take the SATs, as compared to over 90% of graduating New Yorkers, because we don t go to

schools that require SAT scores.

Additional, unused notes:

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New York: reading: 484 math: 499Kansas: reading: 590 math: 595

Commonly accepted correlation of IQ to SAT: .82 and .81

TheAmerican Psychological Association's 1995 reportIntelligence: Knowns andUnknowns stated that the correlation between IQ and crime was -0.2. It was -0.19 between IQ

scores and number of juvenile offenses in a large Danish sample; with social class controlled, thecorrelation dropped to -0.17.

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Theres a very strong positive correlation between income and test scores. R2 for average/income

range chart is about 0.95, allowing us to accept the results as pretty damned robust.

On every test section, moving up an income category was associated with an average scoreboost of over 12 points.

Understanding that salary is a direct reflection of your value to society

(hence my mothers miserable pay as a 4th

grade teachershes simply

not performing a necessary and desirable function for society).

This is why, in spite of our inability to understand climate change or

even global warming, weve been able to cap unemployment at an

impressive seasonally adjusted 6.5%, while New York continues flirting

around ten. You may rue the rugged individualism of Grammar

Cowboys, Ms. Digan, but you cannot deny their good looks nor their

lifetime achievement. So mock; mock to your hearts content with hearty

chuckle and snide glee. We shall laugh with you all the way to the bank.

State SAT scores, according tohttp://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-

research/sat/cb-seniors-2010/tables

State Category Score Category Score

Combined

Score

IQ

Equivalent

Hi/Lo .82 IQ

DeviationNew York Reading 484 Math 499 983 107.5 131 88

Kansas Reading 590 Math 595 1185 122 149 100

IQ comparisons correspond to both Braingle and the Rodrigo de la Jara IQ Comparison Service

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