IQ

Intelligence is the ability to learn, understand or deal with new situations.
The information and skills acquired through experience or educations is not intelligence, this is knowledge. We must not mix them up.
An intelligence quotient, more often called by its abbreviation  IQ, is a score you get by answering a test made of very different questions on which several abilities will be studied and considered.
There are lots of different IQ tests, but the Stanford-Binet is probably the most popular.
The IQ tests were created with the intention of helping the students who could experience difficulties in school, and give them specialized assistance.

Some of the abilities studied are quantitative reasoning, short-term and long-term memory, visual processing and reaction time.

The age is a determinant factor. Moreover, men and woman have differences in average scores on tests of determined abilities. And it's still undetermined why different races have different scores.


Once you get an IQ score you can't have a lower result. I mean, when you get an 110, it means you've got that level, if one day your score is lower is because you've had a bad day. It's not possible to obtain a lower result because your intelligence is something genetic, so you can only improve your abilities.

We all know Leonardo da Vinci was a genius, he had a 220 IQ. Surprisingly, he is not the person with the highest IQ. Marylin vos Savant  is in the Guiness Wold Records book due to her 228 IQ
This is a nice IQ score coindicence: Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Darwin had 160.


Terman's IQ classification was:

- below 70: definite feeble mindedness
- 70-80: Borderline deficiency
- 80-90: Dullness
- 110-120: Normal or average intelligence
- 120-140: Very superior intelligence
- 140 and over: Genius or near genius

But later Welscher made another one basing it on the Problable Error:
- 65 and below: Defective
- 66 - 79: Borderline
- 80 - 90: Dull normal
- 91 - 110: Average
- 111 - 119: Bright normal
- 120 - 127: Superior
- 128 and over: Very superior


*Interesting detail: Only one out of 500 people has a very superior intelligence.

 

I dare you to try!

 IQ test (Spanish)




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