Iq

//ˌaɪ ˈkjuː//

"Iq" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Testing Koko's IQ is not easy.

Far from refuting the thesis that race is to blame for lower IQ score, Lynn's data actually supports it.

Anybody with at least a two-digit IQ knows this was a politically biased choice.

Dr. Patterson, a psychologist, has tested Koko's IQ.

"Idiot," "moron," and "imbecile" were all once scientific terms referring to specific IQ ranges.

Tom thought Mary had the IQ of a lizard.

Feels a bit weird having a king, whose IQ is half compared to yours.

I don't know my IQ.

Not to brag, but I'm a really smart guy. Really. I took an IQ test once, and the results were off the charts.

Not to brag, but I have a pretty high IQ.

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A ratio scale is one with an absolute zero and equal intervals between the units of the scale. Height and weight are such scales. Presumably IQ is not, and certainly the Fahrenheit and centigrade scores are not.

Not everyone is quite as enamoured with IQ tests as Trump. In 2004, the New York Times asked Stephen Hawking what his IQ was and he memorably replied: “People who boast about their IQ are losers.” […] Let’s just hope that one consolation of the robots taking over is that we’ll finally stop hearing insufferable people go on about their very high IQs.

The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.

That was an IQ play!

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