Re:Ask HN: Any Parents to “Average” Children?
by dragonwriter on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:47PM
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> but due to some difficulties in preschool, underwent some tests and has an IQ of 102.
That's an average-ish result, so it probably isn't the source of the problems in preschool. OTOH whatever the unidentified source of those problems is may be depressing the results of the IQ assessment. (While IQ tests generally have decent test-retest consistency, there are definitely factors other than what they are intended to test that can impact them, and the kinds of other things that would lead to problems for which an IQ test would be part of the diagnostic response definitely include them.)
In this scenario, were it me, “my child has a test showing average intelligence” would not be a major concern.
That's an average-ish result, so it probably isn't the source of the problems in preschool. OTOH whatever the unidentified source of those problems is may be depressing the results of the IQ assessment. (While IQ tests generally have decent test-retest consistency, there are definitely factors other than what they are intended to test that can impact them, and the kinds of other things that would lead to problems for which an IQ test would be part of the diagnostic response definitely include them.)
In this scenario, were it me, “my child has a test showing average intelligence” would not be a major concern.