Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. A score derived from one of several different standardize test attempting to measure intelligence.
WordNet
n. a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100) [syn: IQ, I.Q.]
Wikipedia
An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligenzquotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests he advocated in a 1912 book. When current IQ tests are developed, the median raw score of the norming sample is defined as IQ 100 and scores each standard deviation (SD) up or down are defined as 15 IQ points greater or less, although this was not always so historically. By this definition, approximately two-thirds of the population scores between IQ 85 and IQ 115. About 5 percent of the population scores above 125, and 5 percent below 75.
IQ scores have been shown to be associated with such factors as morbidity and mortality, parental social status, and, to a substantial degree, biological parental IQ. While the heritability of IQ has been investigated for nearly a century, there is still debate about the significance of heritability estimates and the mechanisms of inheritance.
IQ scores are used for educational placement, assessment of intellectual disability, and evaluating job applicants. Even when students improve their scores on standardized tests, they do not always improve their cognitive abilities, such as memory, attention and speed. In research contexts they have been studied as predictors of job performance, and income. They are also used to study distributions of psychometric intelligence in populations and the correlations between it and other variables. Raw scores on IQ tests for many populations have been rising at an average rate that scales to three IQ points per decade since the early 20th century, a phenomenon called the Flynn effect. Investigation of different patterns of increases in subtest scores can also inform current research on human intelligence.
Usage examples of "intelligence quotient".
His brain was undamaged, undiseased, and of superior intelligence quotient.
They have also been successfully shown to augment the human intelligence quotient—.
It moved up and was succeeded by codes of his earprints, eyeprints, fingerprints, footprints, voiceprints, normal skin-odorprints, bloodtype, skull and skeleton X-ray and sonograms, brain topography and waveprints, hormone balance, kiair and blood and genetic prints, exterior dimensions, intelligence quotient, psychic quotient, social quotient, and gait classification.
Just as the 'intelligence quotient' or IQ used (or it may be misused) by human psychologists is standardized against the average for a whole population, the EQ is standardized against, say, the whole of the mammals.
The first positive effect of the unknown plague had manifested: the captain's intelligence quotient had risen.
Both men even possessed the knowledge of an Arkon specialist, through the Arkonide hypno-schooling, but in order to master a positronicon in both theory and practice one needed the intelligence quotient of a Perry Rhodan or a Reginald Bell.
Genetic engineering and rigorous training in childhood had given him an intelligence quotient of one hundred and eighty.
He sometimes thought that part of the commissioning process was the removal of several significant digits from the would-be officers' intelligence quotient.
Now, Emmett could challenge you, demand to know your intelligence quotient, and if your number is higher than his, he would become your servant for life.