One Technical Problem That Arose with the Early Use of Intelligence

question 21

Multiple Choice

One technical problem that arose with the early use of intelligence quotients on tests such as the Stanford-Binet was that

• A) mental age was difficult to accurately determine.
• B) standard deviations were not constant with age.
• C) factor analysis was done by hand and highly subject to error.
• D) None of these

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