What do IQ scores mean?

Answer 1

IQ doesn't define anything. It just gives you an outlook, it tells you your potential at being intelligent. It doesn't define your ability. ---------------------------------------------------------

My response to the question is not an answer at all, but a clarifying question. Ability at what? Maybe, this question confuses ability with achievement.

IQ tests are formal (usually written) personal assessments useful in quantifying the collective capacities of an individual person in comparison to others of his/her class and relative to those specific capacities of proven successful achievers in that class. Of course, what exactly constitutes intelligence has always been controversial. Tests administered to children are useful in predicting performance in academic endeavors. Those administered by the military or a prospective employer are designed for adults and appropriately predict ranking in settings profoundly different from k-12. But they are all generally effective within their respective contexts. The problem with this question is that the word "ability" is used ambiguously. IQ test scores imply various abilities but do not attempt to quantify any in particular. They are a survey of various capacities that are known to predict general achievement in that class. Since the question seems to be about determining comprehensive intellectual capacity independent of any context, it is absurd to the nature of accredited intelligence testing. Absurd questions are, by nature, unanswerable. If you substitute "potential" for ability, the answer is no, because we're talking about human beings. The score cannot actually impose, or even imply, an absolute limit to a person's achievement. That simply isn't the function of any legitimate IQ test. To be fair to the questioner, IQ scores do imply relative intellectual horsepower but the scores do have a shelf life and therefore cannot frame the limits of a person's lifetime achievement.

Answer 2

Over 140 - Genius or near genius 120 - 140 - Very superior intelligence 110 - 119 - Superior intelligence90 - 109 - Normal or average intelligence 80 - 89 - Dullness 70 - 79 - Borderline deficiency Under 70 - Definite feeble-mindedness

Answer 3

IQ is an acronym that stands for 'intelligence quotient'. It is generally used to determine how smart a person is.

Answer 4

IQ is defined as the fraction: Mental age/Natural age, multiplied by 100.