The Stanford Binet Intelligence Quotient Is a Normed Intelligence Test

question 11

Multiple Choice

The Stanford Binet Intelligence Quotient is a normed intelligence test, and its IQ measures are quite normally distributed. Its standard deviation is 16. If the test were perfectly normal in its distribution, this would mean which of the following?

• A)There are more people with IQs of 100 than any other number.
• B)For every person with an IQ of 120, there is one with an IQ of 80.
• C)More than 95% of people have IQs between 68 and 132.
• D)If someone's IQ is measured as 109, and years later is measured as 112, someone else's IQ has dropped three points.
• E)About 14% of people have IQs between 117 and 132.
• F)Excluding people with IQs of exactly 100, half of the remainder have IQs lower than 100, and the other half have IQs higher than 100.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are.

Greek Letter

Symbols used in mathematics, science, and engineering to denote variables, constants, and special functions.

Highest Score

The highest mark or value obtained among a set of observed scores or values.

Lowest Score

The smallest value in a data set or distribution.