IQ Rating Scale and Categories of Genius and Feeble-minded people.

The psychologists have concluded that the genius and the feeble minded people have the same type of mind. However, the teachers and parents under-estimate the intelligence of ‘feeble minded’ children and overestimate the intelligence of ‘superior’ children. Mr. Lewis M. Terman was the first psychologist to claim with data that women don’t have lower IQ than the male members of a society.

Units of IQ Rating

The IQ rating scale is built by measuring your mental age as a percentage of your actual age. The IQ ratings of adult range from 20 to 200 scores. The skeptics have been raising a number of objections not only on the IQ test methodologies but also on the IQ rating scales. Modern psychologists have dropped the notion of mental age to avoid heavy criticism of the skeptics.

Now the IQ rating is evaluated on the ground of statistical division of scores as of Stanford-Binet test for children and the Wechsler test for adults. An IQ score above 130 is thought to be gifted while a score below 70 reflects mental impairment or mental retardation.

Original IQ Rating Scale

Terman observed that lower average IQ is found in criminals, members of lower social classes, Indians, Mexicans, and blacks, and provided scientific evidence for racial prejudices. Later these cultural biases of IQ tests were challenged and refuted.

Distribution OF IQ Score

• 5% of people have an IQ under 70. This is generally considered as the emblem for “mental retardation”, a situation of limited mental abilities and the scorers face hardships in all fields of life and specially adapting to the demands of life.

High IQ Rating Scale

The modern IQ tests produce scores for different fields as language fluency, three-dimensional thinking and the summary score calculated from subtest scores. On the other hand the intelligence quotient is an ambiguous measure of the ability and power of the brain.

It is said that Einstein had the IQ of 160 and that is not the most gifted or Immeasurable genius. The higher IQ rating is a natural and innate ability that can be improved. But it can not be claimed to be a definite measure of success. In other words a higher IQ rating can’t guarantee a success in your life. A success can only be achieved with clarity of goals and persistence in your action.

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