People of color also are more likely to suffer disparities in mental health treatment in general, which results in their being more likely to be ushered into the criminal justice system, says Tiffany Townsend, PhD, senior director of ethnic minority affairs in APA's Public Interest Directorate.
Units of IQ Rating. The IQ rating scale is built with a mathematical comparison of your mental age with your chronological age, and the result is multiplied by 100 for normalization. Lewis M. Terman, professor of psychology, is quoted to give IQ rating scale a mathematical name of âIntelligent Quotientâ.
An IQ score of 117 is considered to be in the high average range of intelligence. It is approximately the same as a percentile score of 87 (the 87th percentile). That means (sorta) that if you placed 100 people in a row your score was higher than 87 other peoples score and 13 people scored higher than you.