Standardized testing doesn't measure the same skills needed to be successful at creative work.

Please don't ever do this.

What does measure that? An interview where someone gauges whether you love Node.js and can spout dogmatic gibberish about MVC?

Sure, that's why every college relies on them for admissions, not to mention everyone taking the GRE / MCAT for grad school.

Are applied sciences grad programs not "creative work" in your mind? Standardized tests statistically predict success within those programs.

http://portal.scienceintheclassroom.org/sites/default/files/...

Thanks for backing up your claim with a citation to directly relevant research. I wish others in contentious threads could to the same.

What if reality is politically incorrect?

Where's your source? The parent's source is about 8 years old but still completely valid.

Source? It's all anecdotal but I know far, far too many great developers who never even took the SAT (or did horrible on them) and are wildly successful in their careers. I have a hard time believing this is "extremely rare" especially considering most colleges now don't rely on them to a large degree.