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What Is the Average IQ—and What Your Score Actually Means

The intelligence quotient (IQ) is a standardized measure of cognition, or your ability to think, understand, reason, learn, and remember. By design, the average IQ score is 100. Higher IQ scores are ...
Newsweek

Three-Year-Old Boy Becomes Youngest Person to Join Mensa UK: How to Find Out Your IQ Score and Apply to Mensa

A three-year-old boy from the UK has become the youngest person to join Mensa UK, as reported by CNN. Scoring 142 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, Muhammad Haryz Nadzim is in the 99.7th percentile of IQ ...
Psychology Today

Your IQ may not have Changed, but are you any Smarter?

Is our level of intelligence inborn or acquired during our lifetime? Is it possible to become smarter and increase our IQ score? This is one of the hottest scientific and politically sensitive ...
Healthline

What IQ Measurements Indicate — and What They Don’t

IQ tests can measure language, processing, memory, and reasoning. Your score tends to remain consistent from childhood to adulthood. IQ stands for intelligence quotient. IQ tests are tools to measure ...
CNN

What your IQ score doesn’t tell you

Three-year-old Alexis Martin reads at a fifth-grade level. She taught herself fluent Spanish using her parents’ iPad. “From 12 to 18 months old, we’d be driving around in the car, and she would recite ...