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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Hard to say how often this substitution occurs generally, but ‘Scholastic Attitude Test’ gets a few dozen hits:
She was holding the new version of the Scholastic Attitude Test and complaining that it was unfair.
de.sys-con.com/node/158863/comments
Hyde and Lynn (1988) reported lower performance by females on the language part of the SAT (American Scholastic Attitude Test) ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0805854533…
...eligibility for Merit Scholarships is based solely on the Preliminary Scholastic Attitude Test/National Merit Scholarships Qualifying Test …
www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=41267
The Scholastic Attitude Test has for years been used to separate entering college freshmen into an intellectual hierarchy.
mellyry.blog.asu.edu/
... the higher-than-expected fraction of left-handers among those scoring highest in the verbal and mathematical portions of the Scholastic Attitude Test.2
www.epidem.com/pt/re/epidemiology/fullt … -00003.htm
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Since both aptitude and attitude relate to cognitive/psychological states, it is certainly understandable that they may be confused for one another. The “posture, direction” sense of attitude is also very similar to the ”(dis)position, tendency” sense of aptitude.
The phonetic shape is also very similar, at least in casual speech. I’m surprised no one has tumbled to this before. Nice find, Ken.
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