Having a Good IQ range for a good life
IQ Range depends on many issues. Here where try to explain:


  • what is a good IQ range?
  • Meaning of IQ tests
  • IQ levels
  • History of IQ
  • IQ myths and facts


What is a good IQ range?

Intelligence Quotient IQ is calculated as IQ=(mental age/chronological
age)*100. This means that the average population IQ should be 100
(1/1*100).


Some interesting good IQ range guide:


  • IQ ranges from 0 to 200 for adults
  • IQ ranges from 0 to 250 for children
  • 80% of the population has a normal IQ range between 80 to
    120.
  • 50% of the population has an IQ range between 90-110
  • 10% of the population has an IQ below 80
  • 10% of the population has an IQ above 120
  • People with Low IQ below 75 (around 5% of the population) are
    hard to train usually.




Meaning of IQ tests

IQ levels can help identify certain criteria for the future of a person.
Please use the table below with a pinch of salt. It is used only as a
guide and has no definitive conclusion. If you take an IQ test on a bad
day, you might get a biased and untrue result of your real IQ.

  • IQ level Probable Job % of population
  • Below 80 Trash pickup service, lawn mowing 10%
  • 80-90 Fast food 10
  • 90-110 receptionists,  typists, clerks 50%
  • 110-120 (good IQ range) teachers 20%
  • above 120 Doctors, professors, lawyers, dentists 10%


High IQ might be good for very complicated jobs. However, normal
people would require a normal IQ range around the 100 mark.

IQ levels


An IQ level of 130 for a 10 years old chills means that his mental age is
13 ((13/10)*100=130).   Thus the modern version of the IQ is a
mathematical transformation of the rank (see quantile, percentile,
percentile rank), which is the primary result of an IQ test.


History of IQ

The first IQ test is attributed to the French psychologist Alfred Binet in
the year 1905 who published the first modern intelligence test. The
first IQ test was designed to identify children who needed special help
in coping with their school.

A refinement of the first IQ tests was published in 1916 from Stanford
University by Lewis M. Terman. David Wechsler published the first IQ
test which was explicitly designed for an adult population in 1936. The
scale was names the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, or WAIS. Since
the publication of the WAIS, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for
Children was further refined and coined WISC, which is still in common
usage.

Wechsler’s scales separated the verbal and performance IQ scales.
This made it less dependent on overall verbal ability than early
versions of the Stanford scale.



IQ myths and facts

  • Modern studies using MRI imaging have shown that brain size
    correlates with IQ.

  • Many studies have converged on the view that the brain frontal
    lobes are critical for fluid intelligence.

  • Studies have shown that there is a relationship between a
    person’s IQ scores and the structure of the cortex.

  • Men and women have the same average IQ, in general.
    However, there more men with high and low IQ levels than
    women.

  • Good IQ range and its relation to race has been controversial.

  • Breastfeeding has little to do with the person’s IQ levels.

  • Mental age which is the divisor of the IQ equation stops at 16.


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