Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Measurement of the IQ

As we all know,Intelligene devolops with age.Aboy 10 has a different and lesser level of intelligenc than a boy of 15.But is age always the deciding factor?No,all boys of 10 do not have uniform levelsof intelligence.Some are more intelligence.Then their ages,Whilest other are less intellegencet.In other words,the mental age of individual is not the same as his chronicalogical age of an indivudual concide,he can be termed as having a cent percent intellegence quotient>Or in other his IQ is 100.it follows therefore ,that in case the mental age of higher ,the IQ is more than 100 and if the mental age is lesser,the iq is less than 100.Hence the entire process devolves on the assesment of the mental age and it is here that intelligence Test come into play as a method of accessing the Mental age and quantifying the IQ.This is wxpressed as a formula under

Mental age
IQ=.............................X100
chronological Age

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