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Definition of Intelligence quotient

1. Noun. 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).

Definition of Intelligence quotient

1. Noun. A score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure intelligence. ¹

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Medical Definition of Intelligence quotient

1. The psychologist's index of measured intelligence as one part of a two-part determination of intelligence, the other part being an index of adaptive behaviour and including such criteria as school grades or work performance. IQ is a score, or similar quantitative index, used to denote a person's standing relative to his age peers on a test of general ability, ordinarily expressed as a ratio between the person's score on a given test and the score which the average individual of comparable age attained on the same test, the ratio being computed by the psychologist or determined from a table of age norms, such as the various Wechsler intelligence scales. Acronym: IQ (21 Jun 2000)

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Literary usage of Intelligence quotient

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1894)
"An attempt has been made to use as an index of the brightness a value called the "intelligence quotient" (IQ) which is considered to be the quotient of the ..."

2. Brightness and Dullness in Children by Herbert Hollingworth Woodrow (1919)
"If he has more intelligence than normal, his intelligence quotient is more than one; if he has less intelligence than normal, it is less than one. ..."

3. Educational Method by National education association of the United States Dept. of supervisors and directors of instruction (1922)
"If the reader will follow out carefully the implications of these statements, he will see that the intelligence quotient of an individual as customarily ..."

4. Educational Psychology by Daniel Starch (1919)
"Thus, a child 10 years old with a mental age of 10 would have an intelligence quotient (IQ) of r.oo; a child 10 years old with a mental age of 11, ..."

5. The Measurement of Intelligence: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for by Lewis Madison Terman (1916)
"... scale an average 5-year-old will show an intelligence quotient probably not ... at 9, an intelligence quotient of about 100; and at 14, an intelligence ..."

6. Journal of Applied Psychology by American Psychological Association, American Association for Applied Psychology (1918)
"Consequently the distribution of intelligence for the ages separately as well as for combined ages as based upon the intelligence quotient follows very ..."

7. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1921)
"DISTRIBUTION OF intelligence quotientS The intelligence quotient may be ... If the groups be studied as wholes, then the intelligence quotient of the white ..."

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