Psy 201 Week 7 Assignment

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Introduction to Psychology PSY/201 November 12, 2010 Week7: Assignment Testing Intelligence This week’s assignment included taking an IQ test online. The test was composed of 30 multiple answer questions. The test result are as follows: General statistics Total number of questions: 30 Questions answered: 27 Questions not answered: 3 Questions answered correctly: 16 Questions answered incorrectly: 14 Percentage correct answers: 53 % I did not realize that this test had a time limit; therefor I did not get to answer three of the questions. My age adjusted IQ score is 101 and the average score for all test takers is 100. The results seemed to be accurate, although, on other IQ assessments, I have scored a bit higher around 130. This IQ test asked a lot of questions about personal information such as hair color, age, marital status, and whether you smoked cigarettes or not. These questions could lead to someone thinking that this test is biased, but in my opinion, I believe that the test is an analysis of IQ levels in a demographic area using persons of diversity in all categories. According to this particular IQ assessment, I am above the population average which means that you have the ability to achieve success in life. This sounds great to a person that has just taken this test, but I feel as if it is no constellation for doing well on the test. Everyone possesses the ability to achieve success in life. This assessment was put online so that professionals could gain knowledge as to how people are correlated with each other in society, therefore, I do not have any negative feelings about this assessment being used to compare me to other
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