The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are two NIT events each season. The first, played in November and known as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off (formerly the Preseason NIT), was founded in 1985.
According to David Palmer's 2006 book, Parent's Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education, the average score for customary intelligence tests is 100 with a standard deviation of 15; approximately 50% of the population will score between 90 and 109 on a modern IQ test.
How an IQ Test is Scored. The term IQ actually stands for intelligence quotient. To determine a person's IQ, a person's mental age is multiplied by 100 and then divided by the chronological age. The average IQ is said to be 100, so anything above that is considered above average. The range of what is considered developmentally disabled is thought to be anything below 70. Most people who are considered geniuses have IQs above 145. What an IQ Test Does Not Measure.