IQ
- noun
- /aɪˈkju/
- Specialized
- The most frequent current use of IQ tests is for classification and placement decisions.
- IQ scores
- an IQ test
- high IQ
Your memories and your cognition and your IQ are in your brain.
- Your memories and your cognition and your IQ are in your brain.
- There's a world of people who create IQ questions, I think.
- What percent of your IQ is due to your genius?
- And it doesn't take a high IQ to figure out that they're cheap.
- That's financial IQ and that's what the banker says.
- OK, so he says how good is IQ at predicting your intelligence?
- That's close to what we think Isaac Newton's IQ level was on.
- Hashtag, not spawn OK, what does IQ stand for?
- And there are a lot of people whose IQ is real high.
- So however you want to define success, IQ is important.
- Yes, I, I believe habits beat IQ every day, every single day of the week.
- So the, well, that's not, it's I guess because it's IQ that goes down once you've drunk.
- So high IQ is literally big brain.
- Most people have a low financial IQ and it's not their fault necessarily.
- There is evidence that babies who were breastfed have higher IQ later in life.
Examples
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Screening for admission on the basis of an IQ cut-off may need to be reconsidered.
Academic text (1990) -
After taking an IQ test, he learned that his score was significantly higher than the national average.
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And there are a lot of people whose IQ is real high.
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No, because it just seems like the low IQ crowd.
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Maybe you should tax people if their IQ is high and they make more money.
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I already had an IQ test this year.
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When your vocabulary goes up, your IQ goes up as well.
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He has a high IQ.
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Clearly, schools cannot wait until each child has obtained a certain IQ before allowing them to enter kindergarten.
Academic text (1999) -
For example, Jonathan has an average IQ as a second-grade student.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
A number that shows how smart a person is based on a test
A number that shows how smart a person is on a standard test
Compounds
How Intelligent
- Specialized
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word IQ comes from the phrase intelligence quotient. Think of quotient as a math 'answer' when you divide numbers, so IQ is a single number that shows how a person's intelligence compares to the average.