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IQ Test: Where Does It Come From?

Intelligence testing began in earnest in France, when in 1904 psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned by the French government to find a method to differentiate between children who were intellectually normal and those who were inferior. The purpose was to put the latter into special schools. There they would receive more individual attention and the disruption they caused in the education of intellectually normal children could be avoided. Read more…

IQ Test Scores: The Basics of IQ Score Interpretation

IQ scores are often misunderstood. Learn the basics of IQ score interpretation in this article. Read more…

IQ Tests: Do They Measure Intelligence?

IQ stands for intelligence quotient. Supposedly, it is a score that tells one how “bright” a person is compared to other people. If an IQ test is supposed to measure a person's intelligence, the question is: What is intelligence? Read more…

The Role of Genetics in IQ and Intelligence

Your brain, your nervous system, your entire body is constructed according to instructions received from the genes that you have inherited from your parents. It would seem reasonable that superior genes would provide a child with superior intelligence capacity. And in fact, researchers have discovered that parents with high IQ’s tend to have children with high IQ’s, while parents with low IQ’s tend to have children with low IQ’s. Does that prove that intelligence is inherited? Read more…

IQ Tests and Learning Disabilities: Diagnostic Practices under the Microscope

For a child to be diagnosed as learning disabled there must be a discrepancy between his expected school achievement and his real school achievement. The most important criterion to determine his expected achievement is his IQ score. This article puts the diagnostic practices of the learning disabilities field under the microscope. Read more…

Do You Need a High IQ to Be Successful?

Although the IQ test is very widely used, and the results are almost synonymous with our idea of intelligence, there has also been a lot of criticism of the test, and of the way the results are used. Read more…

Who Cares What Your IQ Is?

The American Heritage Dictionary defines Intelligence Quotient as “The ratio of tested mental age to chronological age, usually expressed as a quotient multiplied by 100.” Basically, it's a test of intelligence, with 100 as the average score. There are some problems with IQ tests however. Read more…

“Mentally Retarded” Becomes an Assistant Professor: IQ Test
Scores Can Be Wrong

Far-reaching decisions are sometimes made about children, based solely on unreliable test scores. An IQ score nearly destroyed the life of Gregory Ochoa. Click here to read his story…

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