mental age

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It’s not cute watching and adult man regress to the mental age of a three-year-old.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2024

Sheila's last recorded child assessment the following April judged her to be functioning at the mental age of a child of 18 months.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024

Her mental age was about 5 or 6 years old, her parents said in the claim.

From Fox News • Jan. 21, 2020

Nora had poor motor skills and needed help to walk and her mental age was about 5 or 6 years old, her parents’ said in the claim.

From Washington Times • Jan. 21, 2020

No child varied in the second test more than half a year from the mental age first secured.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson