Truth About Standardized Test Scores

 

Race/Relligion	SAT Math
Protestant Whites	648
Catholic Whites	391
Indians	452
Asians	615
Blacks	401
Hispanic	441

Our amazingly low 12th grade TIMSS Math score of 461 simply cannot be explained by any ordinary known differences between races and sexes and requires a detailed analysis of the historic 154 point gap between Whites in Iowa and Whites in New York.  Once we realize that Catholic Whites in mostly Catholic states score more than 200 SAT Math points lower than Protestant Whites in mostly Protestant states, the differences begin to make sense:

Column1	Iowa	Rhode Island	New York	North Dakota
SAT M Whites	613	516	535	610
non-hisp Whites	91.0%	79.3%	62.0%	66.0%
Hispanic	3.8%	11.2%	15.1%	15.1%
Catholics	17.1%	59.2%	37.6%	22.2%
White Catholics	13.3%	48.0%	22.5%	7.1%
White Protestants	77.7%	31.3%	39.5%	58.9%
Cath as pct Whites	14.6%	60.5%	36.3%	10.8%
Prot as pct Whites	85.4%	39.5%	63.7%	89.2%
Protestant Whites	661.3	661.3	635	635
Catholic Whites	421.2	421.2	360	360
Indians		449	480
Asians	661	527	569	638
Blacks	502	403	421	402
Hispanic	521	404	439