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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by pedrilo: 8:17am On Mar 08, 2018
OriginalKogiboy:
too long to b read
young man, it is obvious u r cognitively delayed, meaning ur mental age is far below ur chronological age. cheers
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Makaveli1166(m): 8:17am On Mar 08, 2018
Been wondering what buhari's iQ is gonna sum up to*0.0001*hmm
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Stevengerd(m): 8:18am On Mar 08, 2018
IQ doesnt guarantee success or goodlife. so if you aint making money, or talking about the credit card o ti jonze.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Angelawhite(m): 8:19am On Mar 08, 2018
mamatayour:
A child with high IQ can be known when he or she is newly given birth to. Educationist believes that a new baby with high IQ would know where the breast is even before the mother introduces her to it. Such child would be a genius

You can lie!

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by AkpaMgbor(m): 8:19am On Mar 08, 2018
The late Bobby Fischer (a chess grandmaster and world champion) was said to have an IQ of 180..one of the highest ever recorded IQ.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by LordDarius(m): 8:23am On Mar 08, 2018
Great post... Educative right? wink
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by godofuck231: 8:27am On Mar 08, 2018
positivelord:
It is measured by the degree of support you give to a Dullard we have in Aso
ahh but who go help us give Bubu small na, pls let's contribute, plssss

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Nobody: 8:28am On Mar 08, 2018
stevonics:
You've probably heard of 'IQ,' but do you really know what it means? This lesson covers the history and theory behind the famous idea of an intelligence quotient (including the inventor of IQ, Alfred Binet), and will help you learn how to understand and interpret IQ scores.

What is IQ?
Imagine a ten-year-old child, having trouble in school, struggling to learn how to spell and how to read books. Why? Is it because he is low in intelligence? Or is it simply because he is from a poor family who doesn't have the same resources as a rich family? Maybe he is very intelligent, but his problems in school are due to pragmatic issues such as a lack of books in his house.


The concept of IQ was invented in the year 1904 by Alfred Binet, he noticed that many children in school were struggling, but he didn't think it was due to lack of intelligence. So Binet made a very important distinction between two different things that might lead to poor school performance.

He said that some children will do badly because they simply aren't intelligent, so there's not much that can be done to directly help them improve their grades.

However, he said that other children have plenty of learning ability and potential to do well, but they struggle simply because of life circumstances. He said that these children, who have a high learning ability, should be distinguished from children who do badly in school because of low intelligence.

This distinction is what paved the way for Binet's new idea, which he called the intelligence quotient, or IQ for short. Everyone has an individual intelligence quotient, which is a number indicating your inherent ability to learn instead of simply the knowledge you already have. If you have a high IQ, it means that you have the intelligence required to do well in school because you have the ability or potential to succeed.

The IQ Equation
So how did Binet suggest that we measure someone's ability to learn or potential to succeed? Binet said that the way we can do this is to compare two things. First, we just need to know how old a child is, which he called a person's chronological age. What's your chronological age? (from birth to now), so that's my
chronological age.

But Binet also said that we need to know your Mental age, which is your cognitive abilities relative to what others can do of different ages. In other words, what do you think an average five year old can do? Can they read? Can they do math? What about the average ten year old? Or how about someone who is 40 years old? Your mental age is what you are capable of doing, scaled to what the average people of different ages can do. In other words, if you're capable of doing what an average 25-year old can do, then your mental age is 25. If you can do what an average 10-year old can do, but not anything more advanced than that, then your mental age is only 10.

How did Binet figure out what an average kid of each different age could do? He simply did research using a bunch of kids at each age to directly measure their cognitive abilities. Instead of measuring academic knowledge like, 'Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?', he measured ability to solve problems and think creatively, such as noticing patterns or remembering images. After testing lots of kids of all different ages, he could then give you, personally, the same test and compare your scores to what kids of each different age could do. If your scores matched what the 10-year olds were doing, then we know your mental age is 10 years old.

So now that we have these two scores - chronological age and mental age - we want to compare them. If you are right on track, then your two scores will perfectly match. If you are advanced, or very intelligent, according to Binet, then your mental age will be bigger than your chronological age. Say, if you are 20 years old right now, but you can do what an average 30-year old can do, then you're 10 years ahead of schedule, which Binet would say makes you very intelligent. The opposite could also be true; maybe you're 20 years old, but can only do what the average 10-year old can do. Binet would say that you are cognitively delayed and therefore not intelligent based on IQ.

To get a bit more technical, Binet created an equation so that we could all have a quick, simple number that indicates where we stand in comparing these two scores. The equation looks like this: Mental Age / Chronological Age x 100 = IQ. We can make a ratio of the two ages, with mental age on top, and the only reason we multiply by 100 is to get a nice, round number instead of a fraction. Let's go through a couple of examples of the simple math here.

If your mental age and chronological age are a perfect match, you might get an equation like this: 20 mental years old / 20 actual years old x 100 = 100. You can see that an IQ score of 100 will always mean that a person is exactly where the average person would be, so an IQ of 100 will always mean average intelligence for IQ. If a person is mentally advanced, they might get a score like this: 30 mental years old / 20 actual years old x 100 = 150. An IQ score of 150 would be very impressive! Just as an example, the rumor is that Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160! Any IQ higher than 100 means that the person is a little bit more intelligent than average. Again, the opposite can also be true. Let's say we have a person who is a little bit developmentally delayed; he or she might have an equation like this: 10 mental years old / 20 actual years old x 100 = 50. An IQ score less than 100 will always mean that a person's mental abilities are not as good as the average person of his or her age group.

http://www.stevonics.com/2018/03/intelligence-quotient.html
In 1983 an American developmental psychologist Howard Gardener described 9 types of intelligence:
1. Naturalist (nature smart)
2. Musical (sound smart)
3. Logical-mathematical (number/reasoning smart)
4. Existential (life smart)
5. Interpersonal (people smart)
6. Bodily-kinesthetic (body smart)
7. Linguistic (word smart)
8. Intra-personal (self smart)
9. Spatial (picture smart

Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by hagiosfemi(m): 8:28am On Mar 08, 2018
Some Kings are born, while some are made. You can train yourself to be a genius.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Rossburg(m): 8:33am On Mar 08, 2018
Now let's do this simple math.

Given that, PMB's Chronological age = 76
And Mental age = 30.
Thus, applying the famous IQ formula by Alfred Binet.

IQ = mental age/chronological age *100

IQ = 30/76 *100
39

Therefore, PMB's IQ is 39
Which simply means that PMB is not only cognitive but also developmentally behind civilisation.

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Pope22(m): 8:38am On Mar 08, 2018
Zamad:
IQ IS NOT IN PERCENTAGE,YOUR PUTTING OF PERCENTAGE COULD BE A WAY OF TELLING US YOUR'S ISN'T FAR FROM THE NUMBER OF YEARS HE HAS USED IN OFFICE
If you had gone to school, you would know that anything multiplied or divided by 100 is always in percentage. Hausa people dont go to school, so its not your fault.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Nobody: 8:39am On Mar 08, 2018
Powerful write up.
Makes me remember the series 'scorpion'.
If you haven't seen it, you're missing.

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Pope22(m): 8:44am On Mar 08, 2018
Emmanuella's IQ:



90/8*100 = 1125
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Ranchhoddas: 8:48am On Mar 08, 2018
Zamad:
IQ IS NOT IN PERCENTAGE,YOUR PUTTING OF PERCENTAGE COULD BE A WAY OF TELLING US YOUR'S ISN'T FAR FROM THE NUMBER OF YEARS HE HAS USED IN OFFICE
This is too savage.

You want kill am?
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Hemanwel(m): 8:51am On Mar 08, 2018
Very educative! I drop a comment so that I can refer to this thread later.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Josephjnr(m): 8:52am On Mar 08, 2018
stevonics:
You've probably heard of 'IQ,' but do you really know what it means? This lesson covers the history and theory behind the famous idea of an intelligence quotient (including the inventor of IQ, Alfred Binet), and will help you learn how to understand and interpret IQ scores.

What is IQ?
Imagine a ten-year-old child, having trouble in school, struggling to learn how to spell and how to read books. Why? Is it because he is low in intelligence? Or is it simply because he is from a poor family who doesn't have the same resources as a rich family? Maybe he is very intelligent, but his problems in school are due to pragmatic issues such as a lack of books in his house.


The concept of IQ was invented in the year 1904 by Alfred Binet, he noticed that many children in school were struggling, but he didn't think it was due to lack of intelligence. So Binet made a very important distinction between two different things that might lead to poor school performance.

He said that some children will do badly because they simply aren't intelligent, so there's not much that can be done to directly help them improve their grades.

However, he said that other children have plenty of learning ability and potential to do well, but they struggle simply because of life circumstances. He said that these children, who have a high learning ability, should be distinguished from children who do badly in school because of low intelligence.

This distinction is what paved the way for Binet's new idea, which he called the intelligence quotient, or IQ for short. Everyone has an individual intelligence quotient, which is a number indicating your inherent ability to learn instead of simply the knowledge you already have. If you have a high IQ, it means that you have the intelligence required to do well in school because you have the ability or potential to succeed.

The IQ Equation
So how did Binet suggest that we measure someone's ability to learn or potential to succeed? Binet said that the way we can do this is to compare two things. First, we just need to know how old a child is, which he called a person's chronological age. What's your chronological age? (from birth to now), so that's my
chronological age.

But Binet also said that we need to know your Mental age, which is your cognitive abilities relative to what others can do of different ages. In other words, what do you think an average five year old can do? Can they read? Can they do math? What about the average ten year old? Or how about someone who is 40 years old? Your mental age is what you are capable of doing, scaled to what the average people of different ages can do. In other words, if you're capable of doing what an average 25-year old can do, then your mental age is 25. If you can do what an average 10-year old can do, but not anything more advanced than that, then your mental age is only 10.

How did Binet figure out what an average kid of each different age could do? He simply did research using a bunch of kids at each age to directly measure their cognitive abilities. Instead of measuring academic knowledge like, 'Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?', he measured ability to solve problems and think creatively, such as noticing patterns or remembering images. After testing lots of kids of all different ages, he could then give you, personally, the same test and compare your scores to what kids of each different age could do. If your scores matched what the 10-year olds were doing, then we know your mental age is 10 years old.

So now that we have these two scores - chronological age and mental age - we want to compare them. If you are right on track, then your two scores will perfectly match. If you are advanced, or very intelligent, according to Binet, then your mental age will be bigger than your chronological age. Say, if you are 20 years old right now, but you can do what an average 30-year old can do, then you're 10 years ahead of schedule, which Binet would say makes you very intelligent. The opposite could also be true; maybe you're 20 years old, but can only do what the average 10-year old can do. Binet would say that you are cognitively delayed and therefore not intelligent based on IQ.

To get a bit more technical, Binet created an equation so that we could all have a quick, simple number that indicates where we stand in comparing these two scores. The equation looks like this: Mental Age / Chronological Age x 100 = IQ. We can make a ratio of the two ages, with mental age on top, and the only reason we multiply by 100 is to get a nice, round number instead of a fraction. Let's go through a couple of examples of the simple math here.

If your mental age and chronological age are a perfect match, you might get an equation like this: 20 mental years old / 20 actual years old x 100 = 100. You can see that an IQ score of 100 will always mean that a person is exactly where the average person would be, so an IQ of 100 will always mean average intelligence for IQ. If a person is mentally advanced, they might get a score like this: 30 mental years old / 20 actual years old x 100 = 150. An IQ score of 150 would be very impressive! Just as an example, the rumor is that Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160! Any IQ higher than 100 means that the person is a little bit more intelligent than average. Again, the opposite can also be true. Let's say we have a person who is a little bit developmentally delayed; he or she might have an equation like this: 10 mental years old / 20 actual years old x 100 = 50. An IQ score less than 100 will always mean that a person's mental abilities are not as good as the average person of his or her age group.

http://www.stevonics.com/2018/03/intelligence-quotient.html





Op,you haven't really solved my own problem.. How will I know my own mental age? I want to calculate my own IQ.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Ranchhoddas: 8:53am On Mar 08, 2018
Pope22:

If you had gone to school, you would know that anything multiplied or divided by 100 is always in percentage. Hausa people dont go to school, so its not your fault.
Olodo Rabata

QUOTIENT no dey get percent.

It was stated clearly in the article that the reason you multiply by 100 was to get a whole figure instead of a fraction.

There is no percent in IQ or any other quotient for that matter.

Olodo feeling funky.

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by EniHolar(f): 8:58am On Mar 08, 2018
OriginalKogiboy:
too long to b read

Low IQ

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by anowrite: 9:05am On Mar 08, 2018
Pope22:

If you had gone to school, you would know that anything multiplied or divided by 100 is always in percentage. Hausa people dont go to school, so its not your fault.

Dats wot he said...ur IQ no pass Buhari's year in office.

U sha want everybody to know.

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Zamad(m): 9:07am On Mar 08, 2018
Pope22:

If you had gone to school, you would know that anything multiplied or divided by 100 is always in percentage. Hausa people dont go to school, so its not your fault.
ANYTHING MULTIPLIED 'OR' DIVIDED BY 100 IS IN PERCENTAGE?....
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Evangkatsoulis: 9:11am On Mar 08, 2018
stevonics:
You've probably heard of 'IQ,' but do you really know what it means? This lesson covers the history and theory behind the famous idea of an intelligence quotient (including the inventor of IQ, Alfred Binet), and will help you learn how to understand and interpret IQ scores.

What is IQ?
Imagine a ten-year-old child, having trouble in school, struggling to learn how to spell and how to read books. Why? Is it because he is low in intelligence? Or is it simply because he is from a poor family who doesn't have the same resources as a rich family? Maybe he is very intelligent, but his problems in school are due to pragmatic issues such as a lack of books in his house.


The concept of IQ was invented in the year 1904 by Alfred Binet, he noticed that many children in school were struggling, but he didn't think it was due to lack of intelligence. So Binet made a very important distinction between two different things that might lead to poor school performance.

He said that some children will do badly because they simply aren't intelligent, so there's not much that can be done to directly help them improve their grades.

However, he said that other children have plenty of learning ability and potential to do well, but they struggle simply because of life circumstances. He said that these children, who have a high learning ability, should be distinguished from children who do badly in school because of low intelligence.

This distinction is what paved the way for Binet's new idea, which he called the intelligence quotient, or IQ for short. Everyone has an individual intelligence quotient, which is a number indicating your inherent ability to learn instead of simply the knowledge you already have. If you have a high IQ, it means that you have the intelligence required to do well in school because you have the ability or potential to succeed.

The IQ Equation
So how did Binet suggest that we measure someone's ability to learn or potential to succeed? Binet said that the way we can do this is to compare two things. First, we just need to know how old a child is, which he called a person's chronological age. What's your chronological age? (from birth to now), so that's my
chronological age.

But Binet also said that we need to know your Mental age, which is your cognitive abilities relative to what others can do of different ages. In other words, what do you think an average five year old can do? Can they read? Can they do math? What about the average ten year old? Or how about someone who is 40 years old? Your mental age is what you are capable of doing, scaled to what the average people of different ages can do. In other words, if you're capable of doing what an average 25-year old can do, then your mental age is 25. If you can do what an average 10-year old can do, but not anything more advanced than that, then your mental age is only 10.

How did Binet figure out what an average kid of each different age could do? He simply did research using a bunch of kids at each age to directly measure their cognitive abilities. Instead of measuring academic knowledge like, 'Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?', he measured ability to solve problems and think creatively, such as noticing patterns or remembering images. After testing lots of kids of all different ages, he could then give you, personally, the same test and compare your scores to what kids of each different age could do. If your scores matched what the 10-year olds were doing, then we know your mental age is 10 years old.

So now that we have these two scores - chronological age and mental age - we want to compare them. If you are right on track, then your two scores will perfectly match. If you are advanced, or very intelligent, according to Binet, then your mental age will be bigger than your chronological age. Say, if you are 20 years old right now, but you can do what an average 30-year old can do, then you're 10 years ahead of schedule, which Binet would say makes you very intelligent. The opposite could also be true; maybe you're 20 years old, but can only do what the average 10-year

Stop giving false/outdated information.
Modern IQ tests do not use mental age ratio but standard deviation iq.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by mrsfavour(f): 9:11am On Mar 08, 2018
Benblaq:
cry

Help me calculate the IQ of PMB

I've trying to calculate it, all i'm seeing is 0.027..i want to be sure if i'm correct
hhahaaahhahahah
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by tete7000(m): 9:13am On Mar 08, 2018
okeke00:
I don't know how to measure the IQ but I believe all these Relgious people in Nigeria all have low IQ

I will rather also say that those who seem not to believe that God has a place in the natural scheme of things are low in IQ. God is evidently seen everywhere, only those whose IQ are low deny that. The Psalmist wrote:

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
Psalm 19:1‭-‬6 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.19.1-6.NIV

To believe only faith without work or reason suffices; or to believe only knowledge without faith can do man good are both characteristics of people with low IQ. Those with good IQ can identify where their limits is, and where God possibilities starts. They don't deny God, neither do they believe only God without personal effort wil solve all their problems.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Pope22(m): 9:14am On Mar 08, 2018
Zamad:
ANYTHING MULTIPLIED 'OR' DIVIDED BY 100 IS IN PERCENTAGE?....
Mr man, get busy na or dont you have anything to do this morning? Am not as jobless as you are please.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by akashi01(m): 9:14am On Mar 08, 2018
Pope22:
What is buahri IQ?


10/75*100 = 13%
See this maggot calculating IQ in percentage. That says a lot about you and the mor0ns that liked the ignorance you posted.
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Rockyrascal(m): 9:23am On Mar 08, 2018
Lemme quickly calculate buhari's own

Modified.... shocked












I.Q = shake my head embarassed
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Lemmejoor(m): 9:35am On Mar 08, 2018
it's measured in derica
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by SlayerForever: 9:41am On Mar 08, 2018
greiboy:
Intelligent quotation cannot guarantee success in life

it only means the person is intelligent, but we all know that we make our most significant decisions under pressure

Therefore, I believe emotional intelligence is more important to people's success in life.

Emotional intelligence or Emotional quotation can be described as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically

My brother, you're truly intelligent. This last paragraph is actually the meat of the issue less intelligent people can't see. That is what will hugely determines success.

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Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Robinrul(m): 9:47am On Mar 08, 2018
Nice thread, i knw those ones who r always waiting to write inciting comments into this forum have very low IQ
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by Robinrul(m): 9:48am On Mar 08, 2018
Nice thread, i knw those ones who r always waiting to write inciting comments into this forum have very low IQ[center]Nice thread, i knw those ones who r always waiting to write inciting comments into this forum have very low IQ[/center]Nice thread, i knw those ones who r always waiting to write inciting comments into this forum have very low IQ
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by daiksworld: 9:51am On Mar 08, 2018
50 IQ sighted sir
OriginalKogiboy:
too long to b read
Re: What Is Intelligence Quotient (IQ) And How Is It Measured? by AlwaysUltraPad: 9:52am On Mar 08, 2018
Rexnegro:
Just go watch LUCY u will understand properly .... Morgan Freeman is the professor in the movie.
that movie is talking about what we can do if we use up to 10% of our brains.

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