PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Standard Deviation, Nomothetic
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It allows you to assess whether certain educational approaches lead to higher levels of success. It may allow one to tailor a child education to their current abilities but how does one measure intelligence: name some intelligent people what is it about them that you relating to intelligence. Then till now : the binet-simon scale was revised in 1916 and was then called the stanford-binet scale. With that version of the scale, the iq of a person represented their mental age(as suggested by the test) divided by their chronological age then multiplied by. 100: the test was revised again in 1985, and the way that iq is measured was also changed. The test was set up in a way such that the average score is 100, and the standard deviation is 16. So now, a person"s iq is simply their sore on the test.
