Which of the following is true of the prevalence of intellectual disability (ID)?
a. Since a person’s IQ is stable, someone diagnosed with ID in childhood always continues to qualify for a diagnosis later in life.
b. The prevalence of ID is 2.2% because that is the percentage of individuals who fall 2 standard deviations below the mean on the normal curve of IQ scores.
c. Screening adults for ID results in a much lower prevalence rate than screening school-age children.
d. ID occurs in equal rates in males and females.
c. Screening adults for ID results in a much lower prevalence rate than screening school-age children.
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