Dinah took the WAIS last month. The results of the test show her to have an IQ of 123. Dinah's IQ was determined by ____.?
a. ?dividing her mental age by her actual age and multiplying by 100
b. ?a statistical comparison of her raw scores to the raw scores of others in her age group
c. ?giving her one IQ point for every question she answered correctly and subtracting an IQ point for each incorrect answer
d. ?the tester's subjective judgment based on the Terwilliger standard
ANSWER:
b
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