I.Q.
Example Sentences
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“Ferris” still has many hallmarks of a DiCamillo story — small town simplicity, the slow pace of a hot summer, a trusted best friend, and an adorable dog with a freakishly high emotional I.Q.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024
Reacher blends the type of ‘80s and ‘90s action meathead flicks that Gen X and elder Millennials were raised on with a combination of high I.Q. and emotional intelligence.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2024
At age 11, Johnson was given an I.Q. score of 69, but in prison he read more good literature than the average student at Yale University, a mile and a half from his boyhood home.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
“One, to successfully recruit talented, intelligent players. Two, to develop the skills as well as the basketball I.Q. of those players. And three, to retain those players for several years.”
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
Reducing a complex intelligence or the economy to numbers on a scale, whether I.Q. or GNP, is myopic at best and many times simply ludicrous.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
