IQ Tests Were Originally Designed to Predict School Performance

question 15

Multiple Choice

IQ tests were originally designed to predict school performance. Recent research has shown that IQ tests

• A) do a poor job of predicting school performance.
• B) do a good job of predicting school performance but a poor job of predicting anything else.
• C) do a good job of predicting school performance and also predict other "real life" outcomes such as car accidents.
• D) have such low reliability they do not predict anything satisfactorily.

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