INTELLIGENT

QUOTIENT
BY:
KUMAR SUNNY
SECTION- C
 WHAT IS IQ ?
• IQ is the acronym for intelligent
quotient, and refers to a score given
for several standardized intelligence
tests. The first of these was developed
by French psychologist Alfred Binet in
1905. He constructed the IQ test, as it
would later be called, to determine
which children might need additional
help in scholarly pursuits. Today, the
IQ test is commonly based on some
model of the Stanford Binet
Intelligence scale.
• Further an IQ test does not measure things like life experience,
wisdom, or personal qualities like being a good friend or a
devoted spouse. So it is not a predictor of a person’s quality or
worth, though it has occasionally been used as such.
• Some things can negatively impact IQ score. These include
malnutrition in children who are tested, and fetal alcohol
syndrome, or maternal addiction. Mental retardation or
conditions that deteriorate the brain’s capacity to remember like
Alzheimer’s disease also causes IQ scores to be lower. IQ may
also be impacted by lack of appropriate education, often due to
disparity in educational funding. If these disparities are
corrected, then IQ scores normally increase.
 TESTING IQ

• There are many ways to test IQ but most tests involve a number
of problems which must be solved in a set time frame, under
supervision. The areas tested include as verbal knowledge,
perceptual speed, short-term memory and spatial visualization.
The most common standardised IQ test used today is the WAIS
which consists of fourteen subtests, seven verbal (Information,
Comprehension, Arithmetic, Similarities, Vocabulary, Digit Span,
and Letter-Number Sequencing) and seven performance (Digit
Symbol-Coding, Picture Completion, Block Design, Matrix
Reasoning, Picture Arrangement, Symbol Search, and Object
Assembly).
 FACTORS AFFECTING IQ
• Like many other areas of the intelligence field, there is
controversy over what affects an individual’s IQ score. For
example, studies have shown that it does seem to be affected by
environmental factors such as childhood nutrition, prenatal
exposure to toxins and duration of breast-feeding. Other studies
suggest a correlation with parental social status and parental IQ
but debate still rages over how much IQ is inheritable and what
the mechanisms of inheritance are. At the other extreme, there
are those who believe that IQ is a redundant term as intelligence
cannot really be measured as a single entity and is not
genetically-determined. They believe that each individual
possesses multiple intelligence, the development of which is
dependent on their social background.
 What is the highest IQ?

• The highest IQ was 228, according to Guinness Book of

Records, this score belongs to the 'smartest' person in
the world Marilyn vos Savant who scored it when she
was 10 year old. This would, according to recent
research, correspond to about IQ 185 at adult age.
That score is, at least, surpassed by the chess player
and champion Bobby Fisher which was 187, and Kim
Ung-Yong (S. Korea) with a score over 200.
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 Who is the smartest person?

• I don't think anyone has an accurate answer to

that question; however some psychologists
believe that William James Sidis reached the
maximum capacity possible for a human. In the
Buzan's Book of Mental World Records, the
highest IQ score ever attained is assigned to the
history's greatest genius Leonardo Da Vinci. The
estimate is a nearly unbelievable adult IQ of 220.
 DOES IQ REALLY MEASURE INTELLIGENCE

• Well, to answer that we first need to answer one

question, what is intelligence? You cannot measure
something that you can hardly define. The problem is
that the term intelligence has never been defined
adequately and therefore nobody knows what an IQ
test is supposed to measure. In spite of all this, today
the future of thousands of children/ employees is
determined by the results of this test, simply
because it has its good share of accuracy.
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