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A Little More Background on Ability Testing: Part 1

A Little More Background on Ability Testing: Part 1

To Help You Better Understand Your Own Test Results (Maybe)

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Deborah Ruf
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A Little More Background on Ability Testing: Part 1
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Not all IQ tests are on the same scale, so unless you know this, you might end up comparing apples and oranges. A 180 IQ on one test might be only a 145 or 146 on another!

IQ tests, and other standardized tests we take over the years, are designed to “sort” people on a range of abilities. The scores, and the percentiles for the scores, rank-order our pe…

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