All 12 Uses
IQ
in
Flowers for Algernon -- Novel
(Edited)
- Nemur says, with much more than twice my I.Q. of 70, then maybe people will like me and be my friends.
p. 49.1I.Q. = measure of general intelligence
- I'm not sure what I.Q. is anyway.
p. 49.1
- But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn't weigh intelligence at all.
p. 49.2
- He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup.
p. 49.3
- When I asked Burt Seldon, who gives me my intelligence tests and works with Algernon, he said that some people would say both of them were wrong and according to the things he's been reading up on, the I.Q. measures a lot of different things including some of the things you learned already and it really isn't a good measure of intelligence at all.
p. 49.5
- So I still don't know what I.Q. is, and everybody says it's something different.
p. 49.6
- And I'm not talking about your I.Q. It's your attitude toward people—you're not the same kind of human being—
p. 122.7 *
- I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70.
p. 126.9
- I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70.
p. 126.9
- He pats Charlie's head and says, "You're a lot nicer than some of the normal kids whose mothers bring them here hoping I can make geniuses out of them by raising their I.Q.'s."
p. 141.7I.Q.'s = measures of general intelligence
- They called it the I.Q. but it was the evil-I.Q.
p. 266.3I.Q. = measure of general intelligence
- They called it the I.Q. but it was the evil-I.Q.
p. 266.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(IQ) a measure of general intelligence where a high score is considered a strength for many kinds of tasksAn average score = 100; 67% of people are between 85 and 115; 97.5% of people are between 70 and 130.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)