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What term refers to the overall score that compares an individual's performance to a normative sample, often centered at 100?
Correct Answer:
Intelligence quotient (IQ)
Explanation:
The idea here is how a score shows where someone stands compared with a large reference group. The overall score that does that comparison is an intelligence quotient, or IQ. An IQ score reflects how a person’s performance stacks up against a normative sample of the same-age individuals. The scoring is standardized so the average is set at 100, with most people falling near that value and the spread described by a standard deviation of about 15 points. So an IQ score communicates relative strength or weakness compared to peers, using a norm-referenced benchmark centered at 100. The other terms are about how the measurement is created or what kind of test it is, not the final comparative score itself.

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