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.
In many cases, an IQ score that falls below 70 is considered low IQ, while a score about 140 indicates high IQ. In the past, scores below 70 were used as a marker to identify intellectual disabilities and mental retardation.