Why did the U.S. Supreme Court find that the IQ cutoff score used in Florida was unconstitutional for deciding whether a person was intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty?
A. The intelligence test that Florida used was not valid for determining IQ.
B. Florida did not consider the standard error of measurement of the test score.
C. IQ isn’t a good measure of the degree of intellectual disability.
D. Florida didn’t consider the other types of intelligence that weren’t measured by the test used.
Ans: B
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