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.
Using scores from the highly respected WAIS-III IQ test, an IQ of 135 would be seen in 1 of every 100 people; an IQ of 145 in 1 of 1000 people; while an IQ of 155 (the WAIS test ceiling) would be seen in only 1 in every 10,000 people.