"IQ" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It stands for "Intelligence Quotient", and it is used to refer to a score obtained from a standardized test intended to measure a person's cognitive ability. For example: "After taking the IQ test, it was determined that his Intelligence Quotient was 92."
As the price of petrol soars, fuel-sipping Japanese cars would normally zoom past rivals, but drivers won't buy what the makers don't make.The shortage of parts has delayed the launch of several models, such as Toyota's iQ microcar and Prius V, plus Honda's 2012 Civic and its CR-V (a cross between a sports-utility vehicle and a sedan).
Toyota and Nissan have told their American dealers that deliveries of cars will not be back to normal until July at best, maybe September.At this late date Honda cannot postpone the Civic's launch, as Toyota has done with several models, including the new Prius V hybrid and the American version of its iQ minicar.
The latest, third-generation Prius and the brilliant little iQ city car show what they are capable of.
Even Warren Hill, a man with an IQ of 70 who is diagnosed as mentally retarded by every doctor who has examined him, found it impossible to meet this standard of proof".
For blood pressure it seems obvious that inheritance within groups is irrelevant to divergence between them; for IQ there is a curious readiness to accept that such differences are due to genes.
Yet even in that regard Warren Hill has been found to meet the definition – he has an undisputed IQ of 70 and all nine medical experts who have diagnosed him over the years have declared him to fall into the "mental retardation" category beyond a reasonable doubt.
Most geneticists have no problem with the research - which, in spite of endless argument about crime as a social construct, is no more perplexing than studying other characters (such as blood pressure or IQ) that involve both nature and nurture.
Children suffering from stunting are destined to have a lower IQ throughout their life.
For anybody with an IQ above that of a biscuit, the perfect superfood is the bacon sandwich.
Although the figures are similar to those for IQ, the response is oddly different: racial divergence, most say, is due to the environment - to poor diet or to smoking.
Vox Day is even less polite about minorities and "victim groups": he claims that marital rape is an oxymoron, because "marriage grants consent on an ongoing basis", and that race is linked to IQ (you can imagine which way).
